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Everything You Ever Knew About Jerusalem Is Wrong (Well, Almost)

By Hershel Shanks
020 To say that you should throw out all your books on the archaeology of Jerusalem would be going too far, especially since I wrote two of them.1 But it is true that books on the archaeology of Jerusalem, including my own, now contain a lot of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999

Who Lies Here?

Jordan tombs match those at Qumran
By Hershel Shanks
049 Not whodunit but whoisit? The mystery deepens. I mean the mystery of the cemetery at Qumran with its 1,200 graves. Who was buried there? The conventional wisdom is that it was the Essenes. The reasoning goes like this: Sectarian manuscripts...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999

I Climbed Warren’s Shaft (But Joab Never Did)

By Hershel Shanks
031 Dangling on a rope ladder in a subterranean shaft, 30 feet below the City of David, the oldest part of Jerusalem, and 45 feet above the bottom of the shaft, I wondered whether I was being foolhardy. At 69, should I really be trying to re-...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999

A Mickey Mouse Operation

Annual Meeting convenes in Disney World
By Hershel Shanks
038 Query: Why is Disney World like Kansas City? Answer: Both proved hopelessly inept and inadequate in hosting the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR).a It will be a long time...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1999

Come to the Annual (Additional) Meeting

By Hershel Shanks
018 018 For several years, we at the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) have been organizing sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). Our sessions have been...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1999

Biran at Ninety

The excavator of Dan recalls growing up in pre-state Israel, great archaeologists he’s known and why he’s a Biblical archaeologist
By Hershel Shanks
030 030 On October 23, 1999, Avraham Biran, director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, will celebrate his 90th birthday. He will also...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1999

Bringing Collectors (and Their Collections) Out of Hiding

By Hershel Shanks
040 At the end of the late Nahman Avigad’s magisterial Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Sealsa appear a number of indices and lists that are not only helpful to scholars but also interesting to thumb through at odd moments. Leafing through the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1999

The Image Destroyers

Only non-sacred images were destroyed in eighth-century Palestine
By Robert Schick
040 A curious episode in the history of iconoclasm—the destruction of sacred images—took place in eighth-century Palestine (present-day Israel and Jordan). The region’s Byzantine churches were often decorated with colorful mosaic pavements,...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 1999

God as Divine Kinsman

What covenant meant in ancient Israel
By Hershel Shanks
032 The covenant between God and the people of Israel “must be understood on the basis of political and judicial categories,” declares the highly regarded HarperCollins Bible Dictionary.1 Well, yes and no. In a groundbreaking...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1999

Geza The Jew

By Hershel Shanks
Cats can have nine lives, not people. But the case of Dead Sea Scroll specialist Geza Vermes will make you wonder. His remarkable life is now encapsulated in an autobiography, reviewed herein.
Bible Review, June 1999

First Person: New Life for an Old Theory

David’s general may have infiltrated Jerusalem via the water tunnels, after all
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1990

First Person: Weighing the Evidence

Or lack thereof
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1999

First Person: Don’t Buy Forgeries

(In other words, don’t collect)
By Hershel Shanks
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1999

Editors’ Page: Two Artists in Our Midst

Photographing the past
By Hershel Shanks
Archaeology Odyssey, Winter 1999

Editors’ Page: Why Buy Looted Antiquities?

To ransom them for posterity
By Hershel Shanks
Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 1999

Field Notes

By Ronan James HeadThomas G. Palaima
Archaeology Odyssey, Winter 1999

Editors’ Page: How to Stop Looting

A modest proposal
By Hershel Shanks
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 1999

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