**About the Editor**

**Avraham Faust** is Prof. of Archaeology at the Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University. He received his degree from Bar-Ilan University (Ph.D., 2000), and also studied at the University of Oxford (visiting graduate student, 1997–1998) and Harvard University (postdoc, 2002). He is currently directing the excavations at Tel 'Eton in the Judean Shephelah, and the survey in its vicinity, and he is also the director of The National Knowledge Center on the History and Heritage of Jerusalem and its Environs. His research interests include the archaeology of ancient Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages (biblical archaeology), especially from social and anthropological perspectives, as well as aspects of settlement archaeology, ethnicity, processes of social complexity, and excavations and survey methods and methodology. Avi has more than 200 publications, covering various aspects of the region's archaeology from the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, with a special focus on Iron Age society. Among the books he authored include Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance (London: Equinox/Routledge, 2006), The Archaeology of the Israelite Society in the Iron Age II (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2012), Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period: The Archaeology of Desolation (Atlanta: The Society of Biblical Literature; 2012), The Settlement History of Ancient Israel: A Quantitative Analysis (Ramat Gan: Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, 2015 (in Hebrew)) (with Zeev Safrai), and The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and its Consequences (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press).
