Authors

Ziony Zevit (“Was Eve Made from Adam’s Rib—or His Baculum?”) is the Distinguished Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature at the American Jewish University in California.

David Ussishkin (“Kadesh-Barnea—In the Bible and on the Ground”) is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. He directed the excavations at Lachish for more than 20 years, was codirector of the Jezreel excavation in the 1990s and codirected, with Israel Finkelstein, the Megiddo Expedition until 2012. He is the author, most recently, of Biblical Lachish, reviewed in BAR, May/June 2015.

Lily Singer-Avitz (“Kadesh-Barnea—In the Bible and on the Ground”) is a researcher in the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University.  She has published more than two dozen papers on Near Eastern pottery.