Carol L. Meyers was associate professor of Biblical history at Duke University when this was written and has also been associate director of Meiron excavations in Israel. Her PhD is from Brandeis University, and she has done postdoctoral study at the University of Michigan. Her thesis on the tabernacle menorah, a study of the origins and symbolic implications of that temple furnishing, has been published in the American Schools of Oriental Research Series. Her temple-related work includes The Tabernacle Menorah; “Was There a Seven Branched Lamp-stand in Solomon’s Temple?”; and “The Elusive Temple."