Ancient Ammon Library binding - 1999

Randall W. Younker, Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Andrews University. He is also Director of the Ph.D./Th.D. program at the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Andrews. Younker has directed numerous archaeological projects in Israel and Jordan. Currently, he is directing excavations at Tell Jalul, the largest site in central Transjordan, for the Madaba Plains Project. He has co-edited three books and published or co-published over 50 scholarly and professional articles and reviews.
Burton MacDonald, Ph.D. (1974) in Near Eastern Languages and Literature, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., is presently professor of Religious Studies at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has studied and worked in areas of the Near East for over 30 years. He has spent 20 of those years working on excavations and archaeological survey projects in Jordan, publishing numerous articles as well as books on his Wadi al-Hasa Survey (1988), the Southern Ghors and Northeast 'Arabah Survey (1992), and Ancient Ammon, Moab, and Edom (1994). He has just completed a manuscript on biblical site identification east of the Jordan River.