Avraham (Avi) Faust is Professor of Archaeology at the Department of General History at Bar-Ilan University. He specializes in the archaeology and history of the Bronze and Iron Age (“biblical archaeology”), especially from anthropological perspective. He is the director of the excavations at Tel ‘Eton and the survey in its surrounding, and of the National Knowledge Center for the History and Heritage of Jerusalem and its Environs. He is the author of 8 books and over 200 articles on these topics.