Aryeh Kofsky, Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Senior Lectuer of Comparative Religion in the Department of Land of Isreal Studies, the University of Haifa. His work includes Eusebius of Caesarea Against Paganism (Leiden, 2000), and The Nusayri-Alawi Religion: An Enquiry into Its Theology and Liturgy (Leiden, 2002, with M. Bar-Ahser). He is also co-editor of Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity (Leiden, 2004).