Jodi Magness is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Magness is the author of The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Eerdmans, 2002) and, most recently, The Archaeology of the Holy Land from the Destruction of Solomon’s Temple to the Muslim Conquest (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She produced a 36-lecture course entitled “The Holy Land Revealed” with The Teaching Company and will be featured in an IMAX film on Jerusalem.