Who is Alejandro F. Botta?

Alejandro F. Botta is the guest speaker for Episode 3 of the Covenant Bible Study on the story of the Exodus.  He has his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is currently a Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Languages at Boston University. 

From his faculty page at Boston University:

He recently published The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach (T&T Clark, 2009); co-edited “The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation,” Semeia Studies 59 (Society of Biblical Literature, 2009); and is presently working on an Aramaic Namebook from Ancient Egypt (with Bezalel Porten) and on a commentary on the Book of Chronicles.