Biblical Archaeology

Titus Kennedy (DLit et Phil, University of South Africa) is adjunct professor of Biblical Archaeology at Shepherds Theological Seminary and adjunct professor of Archaeology at Biola University. He is a field archaeologist working primarily with the sites and materials of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. He has been involved in excavations and survey projects at several archaeological sites in biblical lands.

Jodi Magness (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research interests include Jerusalem, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient synagogues, Masada, the Roman army in the East, ancient pottery, the Byzantine-early Islamic transition, and Diaspora Judaism in the Roman world. She co-directed excavations in the Roman siege works at Masada (1995), and since 2011 she has directed excavations at Huqoq in Galilee.