Mordechai Aviam is an archaeologist at the Department of Land of Israel Studies at Kinneret College, Israel, and serves as the Director of Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology. His recent excavations include the Shiḥin Excavation Project and the El-Araj project, and recent publications include: The Land of Lost Villages: Survey of Shomera Map (with D. Shalem; Tzemah, 2021); “In Search of the City of the Apostles” (with S. Notley), Novum Testamentum 63 (2021): 143–58; “The Ancient Synagogues in the Galilee,” Early Christianity 3, no. 10 (2019): 292–314; “A 1st–2nd Century CE Assembly Room (Synagogue?) in a Jewish Estate at Tel Rekhesh, Lower Galilee” (with H. Kuwabara, S. Hasegawa, and Y. Paz), Tel Aviv 46, no. 1 (2019): 128–42; and “Excavations of Three Byzantine Churches in the Western Galilee: Two Churches at Horvat Karkara and the Eastern Church at Horvat Eirav, a Preliminary Report” (with A. Cohen-Tavor and J. Ashkenazi), in A. Coniglio and A. Ricco (eds.), Holy Land: Archaeology on Either Side; Papers Presented to Fr. Eugenio Alliata (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 2020).
Thomas R. Blanton IV is Associated Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, University of Erfurt (Germany). He is the author of A Spiritual Economy: Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus (Yale University Press, 2017) and coeditor (with David B. Hollander and John T. Fitzgerald) of The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities: New Perspectives on the Economic History of Classical Antiquity (Routledge, 2019). He is currently writing a monograph entitled The Circumcision of Abraham: Modeling Ritual from Genesis to the Letters of Paul for the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library.
Agnes Choi is Associate Professor of New Testament at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the associate editor of the Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters and is currently working on ancient mobility, the economy of Galilee in the Roman period, and the development of the early Jesus movement in that context.
David A. Fiensy is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Kentucky Christian University and the author most recently of The Archaeology of Daily Life: Ordinary Persons in Late Second Temple Israel (Cascade, 2020).
John T. Fitzgerald is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and Extraordinary Researcher at North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa). One of the founders of the early Christianity and the ancient economy project, he served as a coeditor for The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities (Routledge, 2019), to which he also contributed a chapter on early Greek economic thought.
David B. Hollander is Professor of History at Iowa State University. He is the author of Money in the Late Roman Republic (Brill, 2007) and Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy (Routledge, 2018). He edited The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities (with Thomas R. Blanton IV and John T. Fitzgerald; Routledge, 2019) and A Companion to Ancient Agriculture (with Timothy Howe, 2020). He also serves as an editor for Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
G. Anthony (Tony) Keddie is Associate Professor of Early Christian History and Literature at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His recent publications include Revelations of Ideology: Apocalyptic Class Politics in Early Roman Palestine (Brill, 2018), Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins (Cambridge, 2019), and The Struggle over Class: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ancient Christian Texts (coedited with Steven Friesen and Michael Flexsenhar; SBL, 2021). His current work explores labor practices and occupational identities in the eastern Roman provinces and the New Testament.
Jinyu Liu is Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University (USA) and has been a Distinguished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University (China) since 2014. She is the author of Collegia Centonariorum: The Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West (Brill, 2009) and An Introductory Research Guide to Roman History (in Chinese; Peking University Press, 1st ed., 2014; repr. 2016; 2nd ed., 2021). Her published articles range from those on Latin inscriptions, the ancient associations, and receptions of Virgil in China, to Chinese translation of and commentary on Ovid.
C. Thomas McCollough is Nelson and Mary McDowell Rodes Professor of Religion Emeritus at Centre College and is the Director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Coastal Carolina University. He is the Director of the Archaeological Excavations at Khirbet Qana and the Associate Director of the Shiḥin Excavation Project. His books include Archaeology and the Galilee: Text and Context in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods (with D. Edwards) and The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and The Other in Antiquity (with D. Edwards). His most recent publication is “The Synagogue at Khirbet Qana in Its Village Context” in R. Bonnie, R. Hakola, and U. Tervahaunta, eds., The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trends (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021).
James Riley Strange is Charles Jackson Granade and Elizabeth Donald Granade Professor in New Testament at Samford University. He is a coauthor (with Mordechai Aviam) of “Shiḥin Excavation Project: Oil Lamp Production at Ancient Shiḥin” (2017); he is a coeditor (with David Fiensy) of the two-volume set, Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods (Fortress, 2014 and 2015). He directs the Shiḥin Excavation Project in Israel.
Jürgen K. Zangenberg (PhD, NT Studies; Heidelberg, 1996) is Chair for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity at the faculty of Humanities at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His main research interests are in ancient Judaism and early Christian literature and culture in a Mediterranean context, Qumran, Samaritans, Galilee, and the Jesus movement and Gospel traditions. He is Codirector of Kinneret Regional Project and field director of excavations at Horvat Kur/Galilee. His recent publications include, e.g., M. Tiwald and J. K. Zangenberg, eds., Early Christianity in Town and Countryside: Essays on the Urban and Rural Worlds of Early Christianity (Göttingen, 2021); and the articles “Will the Real Women Please Sit Down: Interior Space, Seating Arrangements, and Female Presence in the Byzantine Synagogue of Horvat Kur in Galilee,” in M. Bauks, K. Galor, and J. Hartenstein, eds., Gender and Social Norms in Ancient Israel, Early Judaism and Christianity: Texts and Material Culture (Göttingen, 2019), 91–117; “Anchoring Ancient Galilee at the Lakeshore: Towards Re-conceptionalizing Ancient Galilee as a Mediterranean Environment,” Early Christianity 19 (2019): 265–91; and “High Noon at Jacob’s Well: Jesus Taking a Rest at Sychar in Samaria (John 4:4–6),” in press for P. N. Anderson, ed., Archaeology, John and Jesus: What Recent Discoveries Show about Jesus from the Gospel of John (Grand Rapids, 2022).