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HAROLD W. ATTRIDGE
Dean of the Yale Divinity School since 2002. His educational background includes a A.B. from Boston College, a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Harvard. Attridge is one of the leading authorities on Hebrews in which Jesus appears as the enthroned High Priest.

MOTTI AVIAM
Mordechai Aviam was for 11 years the District Archaeologist of the Western Galilee for the Israel Antiquities Authority. Dr. Aviam is the Director of the "Institute for Galilean Archaeology" at the Kinneret Academic College, Israel, in collaboration with the Miler Center for Contemporary Judaism, University of Miami. He also teaches at the Ort Brau de College at Karmiel.

DAN BAHAT
One of Israel's leading archaeologists and a senior lecturer at the Land of Israel Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He is an expert on the Temple Mount, Herod's Palace, and the 1,600- foot tunnel that runs under the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount. He is often featured on TV and is a specialist on the Temple known to Jesus and the early Jews

JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH
The George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is noted for his research in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, the Historical Jesus, and the Gospel of John. He is a Founder and Veteran of the Enoch seminar and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Henoch. He is the President of the IJCO and the FJCO and has been honored by over 20 countries.

GARY A. RENDSBURG
Gary Rendsburg is the Blanche and Irving Laurie Professor of Jewish History at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.). He earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. His main areas of teaching and research are literary approaches to the Bible, the history of ancient Israel, the history of the Hebrew language, and the intersection of ancient Israel and ancient Egypt. He is widely published (including a book on selected Psalms) and has produced two courses through The Teaching Company, one on Genesis and one on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

LEEN RITMEYER
A Dutch-born archaeological architect who currently lives and works in Wales, having spent 22 years in Jerusalem from 1967-1989. He holds the M.A. in Conservation Studies from the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, England, and the Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, England. (From Wikipedia.org) This architectural rendering of the Herodian Temple Mount is Ritmeyer's well-known and widely circulated color drawing of Herod's Temple Mount, along with associated structures and features, as seen from the southwest. This reconstruction is based directly on his own work at the Temple Mount. (From BiblicalArchaeology.org)

LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN
Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies. He had been the Chair of New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and serves as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism in Late Antiquity, the history of Jewish law, and Talmudic literature. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

GEORGE ZERVOS
Associate Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. Degrees include Ph.D., Duke University; M.Th., University of Athens; B.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Leading authority on the "Birth of Mary" (one of the earliest writings in the New Testament Apocrypha). Areas of Expertise cover Early Christianity, New Testament Studies and New Testament Greek. Introduction to Religion, Greek, Intermediate Greek, Introduction to New Testament, History of Christianity (Early, Medieval and Modern, New Testament Literature, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Greek Language as a Research Tool.

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