Konstantin Klein received his doctorate in ancient history from the University of Oxford and has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Visiting Junior Research Fellow at the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (Kenyon Institute). Since 2011, he has worked as a lecturer at the department of Ancient History at the University of Bamberg. The main focus of his work is on the cultural history of the Near East in Graeco-Roman times, especially in Late Antiquity.