KatharinaStreit

Katharina Streit, born 1985 in Wiesbaden, Germany, studied Cultural Anthropology, Prehistory, and Near Eastern Archaeology at the Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, the University of Oxford and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, Katharina Streit directed excavations at the Neolithic-Chalcolithic site of Ein el-Jarba (Israel), and since 2017, she is co-directing the Austrian Expedition to Lachish together with Felix Höflmayer.

MarianneGrohmann

Marianne Grohmann, born 1969 in Vienna, Austria, studied Protestant Theology and German literature in Vienna and Berlin. She spent two years for studies and research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1992/93 and 1995/96). In 2007, she was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Berkeley, California. Since 2007, she is Professor at the Institute of Old Testament Research and Biblical Archaeology at the University of Vienna.