Prof. Lee Levine is a professor of Jewish History and Archaeology at the Hebrew University. Prof. Levine was born in the United States, where he received all his professional training (BA, MA and PhD from Columbia University, BHL and MHL from JTS), and moved to Israel in 1971. Prof. Levine has taught at the Hebrew University for over thirty years, while also serving as Visiting Professor at numerous universities abroad, among them Harvard, Yale and Jewish Theological Seminary. Prof. Levine’s areas of focus include: the origins and development of the ancient synagogue, Rabbinic Judaism in the Talmudic era, Judaism in the Second Temple period, historical geography of Israel, and Judaism and Hellenism. Prof. Levine has written some 140 articles and eleven books, including: Caesarea under Roman Rule, The Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine in Late Antiquity, Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity: Conflict or Confluence?, The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, and, most recently, Jerusalem: Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period (538 B.C.E. – 70 C.E.). He has also edited eleven volumes, including: Ancient Synagogues Revealed, The Synagogue in Late Antiquity, The Galilee in Late Antiquity, Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, From Dura to Sepphoris: Studies in Jewish Art and Society in Late Antiquity and Continuity and Renewal: Jews and Judaism in Byzantine-Christian Palestine.