Louis H. Feldman (“Financing the Colosseum”) is the Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University, in New York. He is the author, most recently, of Josephus’s Interpretation of the Bible (Univ. of California Press) and Flavius Josephus, Judean Antiquities 1–4: Translation and Commentary (Brill). He has published more than 140 articles during a long career.

Hanan Eshel, head of the Archaeological Institute at Bar-Ilan University, in Israel, codirected excavations at Qumran, near where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. He contributed “The Pools of Sepphoris,” BAR 26:04, and coauthored, with John Strugnell, “It’s Elementary,” BR 17:03.