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Michael P. Germano, a graduate of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, holds earned doctorates from the University of Southern California and
the University of La Verne. He completed post-graduate study
in anthropology, archaeology, and theology at Southern Methodist
University and Texas A&M University at College Station. He held
responsibilities in Ambassador University's involvement in the
archaeological excavations at the south Temple Mount directed by
Benjamin Mazar, the Umm el-Jimal Project directed by Bert de Vries, the
Mozan Expedition directed by Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati,
and the
Hatzor Excavations in memory of Yigael Yadin directed by Amnon
Ben-Tor. He supervised the AU contingent at the Hatzor Excavations and
held responsibility for excavation videography.
His current research consists of an investigation of the relationship of the Tomb of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and the Cenacle in Jerusalem. He has two books in preparation entitled The First Christians: Life in the Ancient Church dealing with the historical Christianity of the New Testament period and The Ancient Church of the Apostles consisting of a historical and archaeological analysis of Jerusalem's Cenacle.
He is a member of the California State Bar and admitted to practice before the federal bar. Ordained in 1983, Dr. Germano is an elder in the Living Church of God.
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