L.S. Baker, Jr. is an Adjunct Professor in the Old Testament Department of the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Andrews University. He is also the Associate Director of Andrews University Press on the campus of Andrews University where he has served as the managing editor of the Andrews Study Bible and the Andrews Bible Commentary. Dr. Baker is a research associate with the Institute of Archaeology at Andrews University, a research associate with the Lanier Center for Archaeology at Lipscomb University, and is an epigraphist and artist with the Great Hypostyle Hall project at the Amun temple in the Karnak complex, Egypt.

Barry J. Beitzel is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He earned his PhD from The Dropsie University and obtained a post-doctorate in ancient Near Eastern geography at L'Universite de Liege, where he worked with Professor J.-R. Kupper. He also worked with Giorgio Buccellati in Tell Ashara (ancient Terqa), where he was a member of a  geographical team surveying the terrain and searching for undiscovered ancient sites in the Middle Euphrates and Lower Habur River valleys. Dr. Beitzel authored The Moody Atlas of the Bible and Where Was the Biblical Red Sea? Examining the Ancient Evidence. He has also edited multiple works and served as a consultant and cartographer on even more, including National Geographic.

Phillip Camp teaches Old Testament and Hebrew courses. He is the author of “Finding Your Way: A Guide to Seminary Life and Beyond” (Cascade, 2009) and “Living as the Community of God: Moses Speaks to the Church in Deuteronomy” (CrossLink, 2014) and is the co-editor of “Praying with Ancient Israel: Exploring the Theology of Prayer in the Old Testament” (ACU Press, 2015) and “Speaking with God: Probing Old Testament Prayers for Contemporary Significance (Pickwick, 2021).” He has served as campus minister for churches in Nashville, Ithaca, N.Y., and Princeton, N.J. Camp currently serves as one of the preaching/teaching ministers for the Natchez Trace Church of Christ in Nashville. He and his wife, Amy, have three sons: Jim, Davis, and Timothy. He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University, his Master of Arts in Religion degree from Lipscomb University, his Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education.

Thomas Davis has forty years of experience as an archaeologist, working extensively in Cyprus, the Near East, Egypt, Central Asia, and the United States. He served (2003-2011) as Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) in Nicosia, Cyprus, one of the premier archaeological research centers in the Eastern Mediterranean and currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Archaeology at Lipscomb University. Davis currently directs the Lanier Center excavations at the early Christian site of Kourion (Cyprus), as well co-directs the Nuri Archaeological Expedition in Sudan and the Abila Archaeological Project in Jordan. Dr. Davis has lectured extensively in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

James K. Hoffmeier is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament and Near Eastern Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Born and raised in Egypt, Hoffmeier's passion for Biblical Archaeology and Old Testament studies began in his youth growing up in Egypt, which led him to major in Near Eastern Archaeology at Wheaton College. Graduate school took him to the University of Toronto where he earned his MA and PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Religions, majoring in Egyptian and minoring in Old Testament. While a graduate student, he worked on the Akhenaten Temple Project's excavations at East Karnak. From 1980-1999 he was on the faculty of Wheaton College, while from 1999-2019, Hoffmeier taught at Trinity. He directed the North Sinai Archaeological Project from 1994-2008, which included excavations at Tell el-Borg and paleo-environmental research of northwestern Sinai. He is presently engaged in archaeological fieldwork in the Taharka/Tirhaka pyramid complex in Nuri, Sudan. Hoffmeier authored and edited 20 books and written more than 100 articles, including Israel in Egypt and Ancient Israel in Sinai. He has lectured all over the world and still continues to lecture in Egypt regularly.

Mark Janzen is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lipscomb University. He received his PhD from the University of Memphis (ancient history). His primary research interests are Egyptian epigraphy and archaeology, New Kingdom military history, and the Israelite exodus. He is the editor of Five Views on the Exodus: Historicity, Chronology, and Theological Implications and has written articles and essays on a wide range of topics relating to the intersection of ancient history, archaeology, and biblical studies. Dr. Janzen has been working in Egypt for over 15 years. In addition to his teaching duties, he is the deputy director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall project, an epigraphic mission at Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt and a co-host for a podcast entitled OnScript - The Biblical World. 

Chris McKinny is the Directory of Research at Gesher Media, where he is working on several major projects, including the theatrical docudrama Legends of the Lost Ark (creator, writer, and host). Chris serves as faculty member at Jerusalem University College. As an active archaeologist and biblical scholar (Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University in Israel), Chris frequently publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals and teaches courses on biblical archaeology and historical geography. He also co-hosts the “Biblical World” and “Behind the Bible” podcasts, which explore the archaeological, historical, geographical, and cultural backgrounds of the Bible. Chris is also a core staff member of the Tel Burna Archaeological Project and is involved in numerous other writing and research projects.

Stephen O. Moshier retired in 2023 after 32 years on the faculty of Wheaton College. His education includes degrees from Virginia Tech (BS), SUNY Binghamton (MA), and LSU (PhD). Dr. Moshier's research projects included the geoarchaeology of Bronze and Iron Age sites in the Sinai (Tell el-Borg) and Israel (Tel Ashkelon, Tel Shimron). With a longstanding interest in the engagement of science and Christian faith, Dr. Moshier contributed to Dictionary of Christianity and Science, Grand Canyon: Monument to an Ancient Earth, and co-authored Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins: Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian Perspective. Dr. Moshier is a Fellow and former President of the American Scientific Affiliation, a professional society of Christians in STEM.

Gregory Mumford was born in Canada but grew up in Nairobi, Kenya; Niagra Falls, Canada; and Pretoria, South Africa. His childhood of travel allowed him to visit museums and archaeological sites all over the world and inspired him to attend the University of Toronto to pursue his dream career of being an archaeologist and Egyptologist. His research interest is ancient Egypt and its neighbors and international relations between these regions from Prehistory through the Pharaonic period (5,000-332 BCE). Dr. Mumford has participated in a broad range of archaeological excavations and surveys, including Canada, the USA, and Egypt. He directs projects at Tell Tebilla and Markha Plain in Egypt, as well as co-directed several other projects. He has taught at Wilfrid Laurier University, UCLA, the University of Toronto, the University of Wales, and presently as an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

Terrence J. Nichols is a Ph.D candidate at Lipscomb University's Lanier Center for Archaeology, currently in his dissertation phase. Terry complete two theological Master's degrees from Liberty University in 2013 and 2016. Over the past decade, he has worked on various archaeological projects in both Israel and Egypt. He is senior staff with the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project in Luxor, Egypt as well as the Tel Burn Excavation Project and staff with the Tel Gezer Excavation Project, both in Israel. His research interests include the archaeology of the Southern Levant in the Late Bronze through Iron Ages and its intersections with Egypt in the New Kingdom. Outside of archaeology, Terry was a pastor and is a new father to a beautiful baby girl. He is also a certified IT Technician and uses that expertise in the intersection of archaeology and digital technology.

Paavo Tucker was born in Nashville, and grew up in Finland as a missionary kid before moving to the United States to go to college at Freed-Hardeman University. He attained his M.Div degree from Harding School of Theology, and his PhD in Old Testament from Asbury Theological Seminary. He has also attended intensive Hebrew studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a trained spiritual director through the Order of Sustainable Faith. He teaches classes in Hebrew language and Old Testament at Lipscomb University, and his research interests are focused on the intersection of the Hebrew Bible and spiritual formation, ethics, and philosophy. He is the author of multiple books and lives in Columbia with his wife Laurie and daughter Hannah.