Jesu´s-Luis Cunchillos was born in 1936 in Novallas, Aragon, Spain. He obtained various doctoral degrees from Spain and Paris, and is a prolific writer, the author of 160 books and scientific articles. Cunchillos is Profesor de Investigacion of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain, which is attached to the Instituto de Filología, Departement of Filología Biblica y Oriente Proximo. He is also the Manager of the Hermeneutics Lab.
Juan-Pablo Vita obtained his doctorate in Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Murcia, Spain (1995). He studied Assyriology and Northwest Semitic Languages at the Instituto de Filología of CSIC, the University of Leuven, Belgium, the Institut Catholique and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, France, and the Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany. At present he is Científico Titular of the CSIC at the Instituto de Estudios Islàmicos y del Oriente Proximo (IEIOP) of Zaragoza (Spain). His major interest lies in the field of Syria-Palestine at the Late Bronze Age.
