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the EKPHRASIS EIKONOS of procopius of gaza 235 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Yakov Ashkenazi is a lecturer in the Jordan Valley College and a visiting lecturer in The University of Haifa. His dissertation, The Pa- triarchate of Jerusalem: Its Organization and Its Place in the Christian Society of Byzan- tine Palestine (University of Haifa, 2000), is currently being prepared for publi- cation. His other publications include various articles on the Christianization of Palestine, the social welfare of the Church of Jerusalem, and the leisure culture in the cities of Palestine in late antiquity. Nicole Belayche is a director at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Religieuses (Sorbonne, Paris). Her publications include: Iudaea Palaestina: The Pagan Cults in Roman Palestine (Second to Fourth Century). Reli- gion der römischen Provinzen 1 (Tübingen, 2001). She is now writing a book on Les divinités “ex-altées” dans l’Orient romain (Asie Mineure et Proche-Orient). Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony is a Lecturer of early and Byzantine Christian- ity in the Department of Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her work includes Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity (California University Press, 2004); The Monastic School of Gaza, with A. Kofsky (forthcoming). Leah Di Segni is a researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem cur- rently working on two main projects: The Onomasticon of Iudaea, Palaestina and Arabia, and the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae Palaestinae. She published the Tabula Imperii Romani—Judaea-Palaestina, with Y. Tsafrir and J. Green (Jerusalem, 1994) and The Onomasticon of Iudaea, Palaestina and Arabia in the Greek and Latin Sources (vols. 1-2 in press), with Y. Tsafrir. Her extensive publications pertain mostly to Greek inscriptions, to the history of late antique Palestine, and Pal- estinian hagiography. Yizhar Hirschfeld is an associate professor in the Institute of Archeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently conducting a major excavation in Tiberias. His publications include: The Judean Desert Monasteries in the Byzantine Period (New Haven, 1992); The Palestinian Dwelling in the Roman-Byz- antine Period (Jerusalem, 1995). He also published the find reports: The Excavation at Hamat Gader (Jerusalem, 1997); Early Byzantine Monastery at Khirbet ed-Deir in the Judean Desert (Jerusalem, 1999); Ramat Hanadiv Excavations (Jerusalem, 2000). Daniël Hombergen, o.c.s.o. is a Patrologist and a Trappist monk from the Abdij Maria Toevlucht in Zundert, The Netherlands. He teaches early monastic Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Aryeh Kofsky - 9789047405412 Downloaded from Brill.com10/02/2021 09:35:30AM via free access 236 about the authors literature and patristic theology at the Pontificium Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo in Rome. He is the author of The Second Origenist Controversy: A New Perspective of Cyril of Scythopolis’ Monastic Biographies as Historical Sources for Sixth-Century Origen- ism. Studia Anselmiana 132 (Rome, 2001). Aryeh Kofsky is a senior lecturer of comparative religion in the De- partment of Land of Israel Studies, The University of Haifa. His work includes Eusebius of Caesarea Against Paganism (Leiden, 2000); The Nusayri-Alawi Religion: An Enquiry into Its Theology and Liturgy, with M. Bar-Asher (Leiden, 2002); The Monastic School of Gaza, with B. Bitton-Ashkelony (forthcoming). François Neyt is a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, a member of l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, and the president of l’Alliance Inter-Monastères. His publications include: Barsanuphe et Jean de Gaza: Correspon- dance, 5 volumes, Sources chrétiennes, with P. de Angelis and L. Regnault, osb (Paris, 1997-2002). Neyt also published various articles on early monasticism and African arts and culture. Lorenzo Perrone is professor of early Christianity at the University of Pisa. His studies originally focused on the history of the Holy Land in late antiquity, to which he devoted his book La Chiesa di Palestina e le controversie cristologiche (Brescia, 1980). He has recently worked on Ori- gen and the patristic literature. Among his other publications are the critical edition of the Ethiopic text of the Ascension of Isaiah (Corpus Christianorum. Series Apocryphorum, Turnhout, 1995) and several es- says on Origen. Perrone is the editor of Adamantius, an annual for studies on Ori- gen and the Alexandrian tradition. Lucien Regnault, who passed away in September 2003, was a monk at the monastery of Solesmes, France. He was a leading scholar of early monasti- cism and devoted much of his scholarly work to editing and translating the various collections of the Apophthegmata and the monastic literature of Gaza. Among his major publications are: Dorothée de Gaza. Oeuvres spirituelles, Sources chrétiennes 92, with J. de Préville (Paris, 1963); Les Sentences des Pères du desert: Série des anonymes (Solesme, 1985); Barsanuphe et Jean de Gaza: Correspondance, 5 volumes, Sources chrétiennes, with F. Neyt and P. de Angelis (Paris, 1997- 2002). Jan-Eric Steppa is a research fellow at the Centre for Theology and Religious Science, Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonian Culture (Piscataway, 2002). His current research exam- ines the Christianization of the late Roman Empire in relation to the Christo- logical controversies. Steppa is also completing a revised edition of Zacharias Scholasticus’ Life of Severus. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Aryeh Kofsky - 9789047405412 Downloaded from Brill.com10/02/2021 09:35:30AM via free access about the authors 237 Rina Talgam is a senior lecturer in the Department of Art History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is co-author (with Z. Weiss) of The Mosa- ics in the House of Dionysos at Sepphoris (forthcoming). Her book The Stylistic Origins of Umayyad Sculpture and Architectural Decoration, explores the Sassanian, Central Asian, Roman, Byzantine, Coptic, and early Arab sources of early Muslim art (in press). Zeev Weiss is a senior lecturer in the Institute of Archeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the director of the Zippori (Sepphoris) excava- tions. He published many articles on Roman and Byzantine art and archeology in the Syro-Palestinian provinces and on synagogues in ancient Palestine. His main publications include: Zippori, with E. Netzer (Jerusalem, 1994); Promise and Redemption, with E. Netzer (Jerusalem, 1996); The Mosaics in the House of Dionysos at Sepphoris, with R. Talgam (forthcoming). Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Aryeh Kofsky - 9789047405412 Downloaded from Brill.com10/02/2021 09:35:30AM via free access.