Yoram Cohen, Ph.D (2003), Harvard University, is Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. He has published four monographs on Hittite society, scribal schools at Emar, wisdom literature, and omen literature, in addition to multiple studies on Bronze Age Syria. Amir Gilan, Ph.D. (2009), Leipzig University, is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has written extensively on Hittite history, literature and religion, including Formen und Inhalte althethitischer historischer Literatur (Texte der Hethiter 29, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2015). Nathan Wasserman, Ph.D. (1993), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a professor of Assyriology at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University. He specializes in Akkadian literature of the Old Babylonian period, with special interest in magic literature, hymns, and mythological texts. He has published six monographs treating various literary corpora and Old Babylonian history and grammar. Letizia Cerqueglini, Ph.D. (2014), University of Pisa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, is Senior Lecturer of Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and articles on Semitic languages, cognition and culture, including Space and Time in aṣ-Ṣāniʕ Arabic: A Cross-generational Study (Leiden: Brill, 2022). Beata Sheyhatovitch, Ph.D (2016), Tel Aviv University, is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. She has published a monograph on the distinctive terminology in Šarḥ al-Kāfiya by Raḍī l-Dīn al-ʾAstarābāḏī and articles on the medieval Arabic linguistic tradition. Michal Marmorstein, Ph.D. (2014), The Hebrew University, is Senior Lecturer of Linguistics at the Hebrew University. She has written on Arabic and Hebrew in conversational and literary contexts, including the monograph Tense and Text: A Discourse-oriented study of the Tense System in Classical Arabic (2016).
