Dr. Adam L. Bean is Visiting Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Milligan University and holds a Ph.D and M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University. He is co-author with Christopher A. Rollston, P. Kyle McCarter, and Stefan J. Wimmer of “An Inscribed Altar from the Khirbat Ataruz Moabite Sanctuary” (the editio princeps of the new Moabite inscriptions from Khirbat Ataruz, Jordan) published in the journal Levant, and author of “A Curse of the Division of Land: A New Reading of the Bukān Aramaic Inscription Lines 9–10,” in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter Jr. (SBL Press 2022), along with several reference articles in the Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-biblical Antiquity. He has been actively involved in archaeological fieldwork and grant-funded epigraphic research projects in Jordan.