Dr. Robert R. Cargill (PhD 2008 UCLA, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) is the Roger A. Hornsby Associate Professor in the Classics at the University of Iowa and Editor of Bible & Archaeology. He teaches biblical studies, Second Temple Judaism, archaeology, and ancient languages including Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Syriac. His recent books include Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Cities That Built the Bible (HarperOne, 2016). A specialist in public scholarship, you can see him regularly on CNN, History, Discovery, and Nat Geo, where he contributes and consults on shows like Nat Geo’s “Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls,” CNN’s “Finding Jesus” and “Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury,” History’s “Bible Secrets Revealed,” “Jesus: His Life,” “Colosseum,” and “Ancient Empires,” and most recently Netflix’s “Mysteries of the Faith.” He is a regular contributor on “History’s Greatest Mysteries with Lawrence Fishburne,” “The UnXplained with William Shatner,” “Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo,” and “Holy Marvels with Dennis Quaid,” all of which appear on the History Channel. He also served as script consultant and an on-screen contributor for the series “Jesus: Crown of Thorns” streaming on Fox Nation. He has participated in archaeological excavations at Banias, Omrit, Haẓor, and at Tel Azekah with Tel Aviv University in Israel, where he has been a Visiting Professor.

Boaz Gross is the vice president of Israeli Institute of Archaeology, a non-profit organization which conducts salvage and community excavations across Israel, and provides logistic and financial and professional services to numerous expeditions from most archaeological institutes in the country, alongside foreign expeditions. Gross is writing his PhD dissertation on the development of archaeological policy in Israel at Tel Aviv University.