Alfred J. Hoerth recently retired as the director of archaeology at Wheaton College, where he taught for almost thirty years.

Gerald L. Mattingly is professor of Bible at Johnson Bible College in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Edwin M. Yamauchi is professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Alfred J. Hoerth taught archaeology at Wheaton College for almost thirty years and directed Wheaton's renowned biblical archaeology program. He has participated in numerous archaeological digs and served as coeditor of Peoples of the Old Testament World.
Gerald L. Mattingly is professor of Bible at Johnson Bible College in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Edwin M. Yamauchi (Ph.D., Brandeis University) is professor of history emeritus at Miami University, Ohio. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Africa and hte Bible, Persia and the Bible, Greece and Babylon, The Archaeology of New Testament Cities in Asia Minor, Harper's World of the New Testament, and Africa and Africans in Antiquity. A co-edited work, Peoples of the Old Testament World, won a Biblical Archaeological Society Award.