George Awad

Pastor George Awad is the pastor of the Baraka Bible Presbyterian Church, in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is a native and life-long resident of Bethlehem.

Angelo Baca

Angelo Baca, a member of the Navajo Nation, is currently in the anthropology graduate program at the University of Washington. He is working on his own documentary about the relationship between Native Americans and the Mormon Church.

http://www.ldsfilm.com/bio/bioB.html

Gabriel Barkay, PhD

Dr. Gabriel Barkay is professor of archaeology at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv. He resides in Jerusalem and specializes in old world and biblical archaeology, has been featured in numerous documentaries, and is probably best-known for his discovery of the Ketef Hinnom silver scrolls, which contain the oldest known written biblical text.

http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/le/Faculty.htm (scroll down)

Moti Barness

Moti Barness is a certified guide with the Israel Board of Tourism, which requires rigorous training and extensive knowledge of Israeli and Middle Eastern history, geography, and culture. Moti specializes in small group tours to remote sites that are generally inaccessible with conventional vehicles.

http://www.ib2b.co.il/CInfo.asp?ID=23831 (requires standard Hebrew font)

Todd Bolen

Todd Bolen is Associate Professor of Bible at The Israel Bible Extention (IBEX) Program of The Master's College, located near Jerusalem, Israel. He specializes in biblical history and geography, and archaeology. He is also a skilled photographer, and has published his photographs through BiblePlaces.com.

http://www.masters.edu/academics/profiles.asp?depname=94 (scroll down)

Hector Escobedo

Hector Escobedo is a professor of archaeology in Guatemala. He spoke to us on the condition that we would not mention the name of the university in our materials, because this university's archaeology department has received funding from LDS sources; we have complied so as not to present a conflict of interest. Information about Mr. Escobedo is readily available on the Internet.

Eliseo Fajardo Madrid

Eliseo Fajardo is an archaeologist with the Archivo Histórico Municipal de San Pedro Sula, which translates best as "City of San Pedro Sula (Honduras) Historical Society," and has done archaeological work in and around Copán, Honduras.

http://www.alcaldiadesanpedrosula.com/historico.htm

Katharina Galor, PhD

Dr. Katharina Galor is a visiting assitant professor at the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. She has studied at the University of Aix-Marseille in France, and received her PhD from Brown University. She was co-director of the Tiberias Excavation Project at the time of the interview, and has since gone on to direct other archaeological projects in Israel.

http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1106970115

Simon Gathercole, PhD

Dr. Simon Gathercole is a senior lecturer (a title roughly equivalent to associate professor in the United States) in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~wad005/staff/simon-gathercole.shtml

Yizhar Hirschfeld, PhD

Dr. Yizhar Hirshfeld is an archaeologist at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. At the time of the interview he was the director of the Tiberias Excavation Project, Tiberias, Israel.

http://archaeology.huji.ac.il/depart/classical/yizharh/yizharh.html

Peter Jemison (on left)

G. Peter Jemison is a member of the Seneca Nation residing in Victor, New York, and a historian for the Seneca Nation, though is better known as an internationally-acclaimed artist.

http://www.peterjemison.com/index.html

Philip Johnston, PhD

Dr. Philip Johnston is the Director of Studies at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. He is the author of Shades of Sheol: Death and Afterlife in the Old Testament.

http://www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk/info/psj.html

Philip Lindholm

Philip is working on his Doctorate of Philosophy at Oxford University, having completed a Master of Studies in Theology there. He is working on a book about the excommunication of LDS scholars over academic challenges to the Church, tentatively titled Mormonism's Eleventh Commandment.

http://www.lindholm.info/academics/academicscv.pdf

Thomas W. Murphy, PhD

Dr. Murphy obtained his PhD in anthropology from the University of Washington and currently is the head of the Department of Anthropology at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, WA.

http://www.edcc.edu/anthr/faculty.php?userID=tmurphy

Rabbi Chaim Richman

Rabbi Chaim Richman is the international director of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, and has written numerous publications regarding the Jewish Temple, as well as numerous appearances on international television covering topics related to the temple.

http://www.templeinstitute.org/international.htm

Stephen L. Whittington, PhD

Dr. Stephen Whittington is currently a professor of anthropology at Wake Forest University and specializes in Native American and Mesoamerican studies.

http://www.wfu.edu/academics/anthropology/whittington.html

Peter J. Williams, PhD

Dr. Peter (P.J.) Williams is senior lecturer (roughly equivalent to Associate Professor in the US) in New Testament at Aberdeen University, Scotland.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/divinity/williams/index.shtml

William Wilson

William Wilson is an applied anthropologist working as a systems support analyst at Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ). He has done archaeological work in the Palmyra (New York) area.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/%7Ewew/

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