Dr. Shimon Gibson | Archaeologist, Professor, Author

Dr. Shimon Gibson is a British-born archaeologist living in Israel. Dr. Gibson obtained a PhD on Landscape Archaeology in the southern Levant from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is currently a Senior Associate Fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, and an adjunct Professor of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Gibson leads the team that found the 10-line ritual cup at Mount Zion.

Dr. Gibson is the editor of “The Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible.” He also wrote in “The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence” (HarperOne, 2009) that Jesus was killed for acts of healing. Dr. Gibson was the lead archeaologist excavating the wilderness cave of John the Baptist in 2000 and authored the book “The Cave of John the Baptist.”