Michael G. Hasel (PhD, University of Arizona) is Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology, Southern Adventist University. He has published ten books and over 150 articles on subjects ranging from archaeology, Egyptology, and biblical studies. He is currently National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, Israel. He has directed excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, Socoh and Tel Lachish.