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Eric M. Meyers is Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies and Archeology at Duke University. He is the former president of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and excavated in Israel for forty years. His early works focused on four village sites in Upper Galilee that had synagogues: Khirbet Shema’, Meiron, Gush Halav, and Nabratein. More recently he has excavated at the site of Sepphoris.