Mario Liverani is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Near Eastern History at the University of Rome, Italy. He is the author of many studies, including International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 1600-1100 BC (2001), Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography (2004), Israel's History and the History of Israel (Routledge 2005) and The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy (Routledge 2014).

Niels Peter Lemche is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of many studies, including Early Israel (1985), Ancient Israel (1988), The Canaanites and Their Land (1991), The Israelites in History and Tradition (1998), Prelude to Israel's Past (1998), and The Old Testament between Theology and History (2008).

Emanuel Pfoh is Assistant Professor of History of Asia & Africa at the National University of La Plata, Argentina, and Researcher at Argentina's National Research Council. He is the author of The Emergence of Israel in Ancient Palestine (Routledge 2009) and Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age (Routledge 2016).