Michael CA Macdonald Editor & Author

Juan Manuel Tebes is Professor at the Catholic University of Argentina, current Director of its Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History, and Researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina. He is co-editor of the Ancient Near East Monographs (SBL Press) and former editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Antiguo Oriente. Tebes has participated in archaeological expeditions in Jordan, Israel, and Turkey, and has also been research fellow at many institutions.

Michael C.A. Macdonald is a Fellow of the British Academy, holds a D.Litt from the University of Chicago, and is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. For the last 50 years he has studied the languages, scripts, rock-art and cultures of ancient Arabia and its neighbours, ancient nomads, and ancient literacy. He has led numerous expeditions to record inscriptions in the deserts of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and led the creation of the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA).