Rami Arav

Rami Arav has directed the excavations at Bethsaida for the last 20 years and is director of the Consortium of the Bethsaida Excavations Project led by the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in the departments of Philosophy and Religion and History. He also leads the John and Carol Merrill expedition to the Cave of Letters, where Nabatean manuscripts dating to the second century A.D. and earlier were discovered.

Dr. Arav’s most recent publications are Bethsaida, a City by the Northern Shores of the Sea of Galilee , Volumes 1, 2 and 3 co-edited with Dr. Richard Freund (Harry Truman Univ. Press, 2004).