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Golden Anniversary of the Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
063 There, on a moonlit night beside the ruins of Qumran, was the voice of Yigael Yadin, Israel’s most illustrious archaeologist, dead these 13 years, reading in the original language from a letter by Shimon bar Kosiba, better known as Bar-Kokhba...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1997

Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers

By Hershel Shanks
026 One of the most controversial issues in modern Biblical studies is the increasingly assertive contention that the Bible is essentially useless as a historical source, even for the period of the Israelite united monarchy (tenth century B.C.E...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1997

Masada—The Final Reports

By Hershel Shanks
058 059 Masada: The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963–1965, Final Reports (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society/Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989–1995,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1997

Three Shekels for the Lord

Ancient inscription records gift to Solomon’s Temple
By Hershel Shanks
028 029 Two extremely important Hebrew inscriptions have recently surfaced on the antiquities market. One appears to be a receipt for a donation of three silver shekels to the Temple of Yahweh...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1997

New Orleans Gumbo

Plenty of spice at Annual Meeting
By Hershel Shanks
054 I suppose I should have known it would happen someday. Perhaps the next thing will be a Ph.D. dissertation analyzing the “BAR phenomenon.” The scholarly community sometimes can’t quite understand us—so it tries to explain us. Absent a full-...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1997

The Biblical Minimalists

Expunging ancient Israel’s past
By Hershel Shanks
032 An increasingly modish—virulent?—strain of biblical scholarship concludes that the Bible is useless for reconstructing the history of ancient Israel. If this history can be reconstructed at all, it must be based solely on archaeological...
Bible Review, June 1997

First Person: How to Know More and More About Less and Less

But not in the south
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1997

First Person: BibleWorld

America needs a museum of Biblical archaeology
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1997

Editorial: The Battle Against Junk “Scholarship”

By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1997

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