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Mordechai Cogan (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emeritus
of Biblical History in the Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. He has written widely on the relationship of Israel
and Judah with the Mesopotamian empires during the first millennium
b.c.e., and history-writing in the ancient Near East. Among his works
are: Imperialism and Religion (1974); The Raging Torrent (2008); Bound
for Exile (2013); and commentaries on 1 and 2 Kings (Anchor Bible) and
Obadiah, Jonah and Nahum (Mikra le-Yisrael).
Peter Dubovský (Ph.D., Harvard University), published his dissertation
in 2006 in the series Biblica et Orientalia under the title Hezekiah and
the Assyrian Spies. Since 2008 he has been professor of Old Testament
exegesis at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He is the author of
twenty-nine scholarly articles and has edited commentaries on Genesis,
the Gospel of Mark, and Minor Prophets in Slovak, as well as a volume
on inspiration, Ogni Scrittura è ispirata: Nuove prospettive sull’ispirazione
biblica (2013).
Mario Fales (Ph.D., University of Rome) is Full Professor of Ancient Near
Eastern History at the University of Udine. His main scholarly interests
concern the intellectual and political history of the Neo-Assyrian empire.
He is on the editorial board of two international projects on Neo-Assyrian
texts, the State Archives of Assyria (Helsinki) and Studien zu den Assur-
Texten (Berlin), and co-directs several other journals. He is the editor of
seven edited volumes, and the author of a dozen books (most recently,
Guerre et paix en Assyrie: Religion et impérialisme [2010]) and over 150
articles. Fales has also co-directed several archaeological projects in Iraq,
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