Oystein S LaBianca Editor & Author

Douglas R. Clark is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Archaeology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, and Director of the University Honors Program. Having authored, co-authored, and co-edited eight volumes, including 100 Years of American Archaeology in the Middle East and Ancient Ammonites and Modern Arabs, he has published and presented widely. He currently directs the Tall al-`Umayri excavations. Larry G. Herr is Professor of Religious Studies at Canadian University College in Lacombe, Alberta. An extremely widely published archaeologist, he is Associate Editor of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research and has served for 12 seasons as co-director of the Tall al-`Umayri excavations. He is chief editor of the series of preliminary and seasonal published reports, the latter in the Madaba Plains Project-`Umayri series. Øystein S. LaBianca is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director, Institute of Archaeology at Andrews University in Michigan. He is senior director of the Tall Hisban excavations. Randall W. Younker is Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology at Andrews University in Michigan.