Baruch Halpern, Ph.D. (1978) in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University, holds the Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies, and is Professor of Ancient History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Religious Studies, and Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, at Pennsylvania State University.

André Lemaire, Ph.D. (1973) in Oriental Studies, University of Paris III is correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (Paris) and Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic Philology and Epigraphy at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris). He has published extensively on Bible and West Semitic Epigraphy including NAISSANCE DU MONOTHÉISME. Point de vue d'un historien (Paris, Bayard, 2003) = THE BIRTH OF MONOTHEISM (Washington, Biblical Archaeology Society, 2007).