Gary M. Beckman is Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including Hittite Diplomatic Texts (Society of Biblical Literature), the co-author of The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton), and the co-editor of Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion (Brown Judaic Studies). Trevor R. Bryce is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Research Consultant, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, at the University of Queensland. His books include The Kingdom of the Hittites and Life and Society in the Hittite World (both from Oxford University Press) and Hittite Warrior (Osprey). Eric H. Cline is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute, at The George Washington University.

Recently he has written Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press), co-authored Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam (Cambridge University Press), and edited Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford University Press).