Israel Finkelstein

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1. Richard E. Friedman

   Author of Who Wrote the Bible?, The Hidden Book in the Bible, The Bible with Sources Revealed

2. William G. Dever

   Author of Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?, What Did the Biblical Writers Know & When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel, Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

3. Bart D. Ehrman

   Author of Misquoting Jesus, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

4. Israel Finkelstein

   Author of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition

5. Burton L. Mack

   Author of The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q, Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth

6. James Kugel

   Author of The Bible As It Was, How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now

7. John Dominic Crossan

   Author of Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus, Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated

8. Mark S. Smith

   Author of The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts

9. Karen Armstrong

   Author of A History of God, The Battle for God

10. Jonathan Kirsch

    Author of God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism, A History of the End of the World, King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

11. Géza Vermes

    Author of The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, The Changing Faces of Jesus

12. Michael O. Wise

    Author of The Dead Sea Scrolls, The First Messiah: Investigating the Savior Before Jesus

13. Thomas L. Thompson

    Author of The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel

14. James H. Charlesworth

    Author of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Anchor Bible Reference), Jesus and Archaeology, The Historical Jesus: An Essential Guide (Essential Guide (Abingdon Press))

15. Hyam Maccoby

    Author of The Mythmaker: Paul And the Invention Of Christianity

16. Robert H. Eisenman

    Author of James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls

17. Elaine Pagels

    Author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas

18. James M. Robinson

    Author of The Nag Hammadi Library in English

19. Robert M. Price

    Author of Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?, Deconstructing Jesus

20. James Carroll

    Author of Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History