Ofer Pogorelsky received his B.A. and M.A. in History from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is currently a PhD student of HU, working on aspects of Christianization of the Negev and the adjacent desert regions of southern Palestine. He is a research assistant at the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, a multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, a joint project of the Hebrew University and the University of Cologne.