DAVID E. GRAVES (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) has been involved in teaching the Bible and archaeology for more than thirty-five years and is currently an Assistant Professor with Liberty University Online, Rawlings School of Divinity. He has taught archaeology at Oxford University, England; provided tours of the Ashmolean and British Museum; traveled extensively in the Middle East; and has been involved in excavations at Qumran, Israel, and Tall el-Hammam, Jordan. He is currently a square supervisor at the Shiloh excavations in Israel. He is the author of The Seven Messages of Revelation and Vassal Treaties: Literary Genre, Structure, and Function, Key Themes of the Old and New Testament, The Location of Sodom, and Biblical Archaeology, Vol. 1 and 2. He has also authored a number of articles on archaeology and the Bible.