Alison C. Ewins is a PhD student at Durham University. Her thesis investigates ‘Religious Terminology in the Local Cult Centres of the Roman Near East’.
Margherita Facella is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, in particular on Commagene, where she participates at the excavations and surveys conducted by the Forschungsstelle Asia Minor (University of Münster). She is author of La dinastia degli Orontidi nella Commagene ellenistico-romana (2006) and co-editor of Lokale identität im Römischen Nahen Osten: Kontexte und Perspektiven (2009) and Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East (2010).
Pierre-Louis Gatier is a researcher in the ancient history, archaeology, and epigraphy of the Near East posted at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Lyon (France). “Coordinator” until 2017 of the IGLS program, he is the author of Inscriptions de la Jordanie, 2, Région centrale (Inscriptions of Jordan, 2, Central region) (1986), published in the IGLS series, and has also edited or co-edited numerous books. He contributes to the Bulletin épigraphique and L’Année épigraphique, and is currently working on the Gerasa corpus and on a catalog of the Hellenistic and Roman weights from Syria.
Michał Gawlikowski is Professor emeritus of Warsaw University, where he taught the archaeology of the Near East and Aramaic epigraphy. He was also Director of the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology (Warsaw/Cairo) from 1991 to 2005 and excavated several sites in the Near East, Palmyra (1973–2011) and Hawarte (1998–2009) in Syria, Gerasa in Jordan (1982–1984), and Hatra in Iraq (1990).
Tommaso Gnoli is Professor of Roman History at the University of Bologna. His research activity is mainly focused on the Roman Near East, Greek and Latin historiography during Late Antiquity, and Greek and Latin epigraphy. He has published Roma, Edessa e Palmira nel III sec. d.C. Problemi istituzionali. Uno studio sui Papiri dell’Eufrate (2000); The Interplay of Roman and Iranian Titles in the Roman East (1st–3rd Century A.D.) (2007); and Navalia, Guerre e commerci nel Mediterraneo romano (2012); and has edited Le identità regionali nell’impero tardoantico (with V. Neri) (2019) and Aspetti di Tarda antichità: Storici, storia e documenti del IV secolo d.C. (2019).
David F. Graf is Professor at the University of Miami. He is the author of Rome and its Arabian Frontier from the Nabataeans to the Saracens (1997) and director of the Hellenistic Petra Project. He has been conducting field work in Jordan since 1978. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Saudi Arabia (2003), and recently the Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professor at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem (2017). He is a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton.
Johannes H. Haubold is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He is the author of Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and has co-edited, with G. Lanfranchi, R. Rollinger, and J. Steele, The World of Berossos (Harrassowitz, 2013) and, with J. Steele and K. Stevens, Keeping Watch in Babylon: the Astronomical Diaries in Context (Brill, 2019).
C.T. Robert Hayward was Professor of Hebrew in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham, from 1995 to 2015. He was President of the British Society for Old Testament Study in 2006. His publications include studies of the ancient Bible Versions and Jewish Bible interpretation during Second Temple and Early Rabbinic times, often with reference to the Church Fathers, especially St. Jerome. He taught Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac, and continues to publish work on the Aramaic Targums, Early Rabbinic Texts, and writings of the Second Temple Period.
John F. Healey is Professor Emeritus in the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Nabataean Tomb Inscriptions of Mada’in Salih (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Religion of the Nabataeans (Brill, 2001), Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period (Oxford University Press, 2009), and, with H.J.W. Drijvers, The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene (Brill, 1999). A collection of his articles was published as Law and Religion between Petra and Edessa (Ashgate, 2011). His current research includes work on new inscriptions from Edessa and Harran, on the Syriac script, and on Syriac legal texts.
Jan Willem van Henten is Professor of Religion, in particular Ancient Judaism and Ancient Christianity, at the University of Amsterdam. He is also extra-ordinary Professor of Old and New Testament at Stellenbosch. He is the author of Martyrdom and Noble Death (2002; with Friedrich Avemarie) and co-editor of Martyrdom: Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives (2020; with Ihab Saloul). His commentary on Josephus, Antiquities 15, was published in 2014 in the Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary series (edited by Steve Mason). He is preparing a commentary on 2 Maccabees for the Anchor Yale Bible series.
Benjamin Isaac is Lessing Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. He is also an Israel Prize Laureate. He has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (twice), Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, the National Humanities Center, the Collège de France, All Souls College Oxford, Churchill College Cambridge, and Macquarie University. His books include: The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East (Oxford, 1990), The Near East under Roman Rule (Leiden, 1998), The Invention of Racism in Antiquity (Princeton, 2004), Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World: Selected Papers (Cambridge, 2017). He is one of the editors of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae (Volume 5 is now in print).
Ahmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language. He is currently the Sofia Chair of Arabic at Ohio State University. His work focuses on the languages and writing systems of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East.
Lidewijde de Jong is Associate Professor in Archaeology at the University of Groningen. She has published widely on the Roman cemeteries and funerary customs in the Near East, and is the author of The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Her research focuses on the dynamics of ancient empires and identity formation, and extends to the era of the Hellenistic-Seleucid kings, preceding Roman control, and the period after Rome was replaced by Byzantine and Early Islamic rulers. Her current fieldwork is carried out in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and Pisidia in central Turkey.
Ted Kaizer is Professor in Roman Culture and History at Durham University. He is the author of The Religious Life of Palmyra (2002) and has edited or co-edited various volumes on the social and religious history of the Roman Near East. He is currently working on a monograph on religious life in Dura-Europos and has written the historiographical introductions for two volumes on Dura in the Bibliotheca Cumontiana, Scripta Minora VII (2020) and Scripta Maiora XI (forthcoming 2022).
David L. Kennedy is Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology and History and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He has worked extensively in the Middle East including on programs of Aerial Archaeology in Jordan (1997–2017) and Saudi Arabia (2018–2020). He is the author, most recently, of The Roman Army in Jordan, 2nd ed. (2004) and Gerasa and the Decapolis (2007) and co-author (with R.H. Bewley) of Ancient Jordan from the Air (2004) and an iBook, Kites in ‘Arabia’ (with P. Houghton and