Oct 23 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Balaam is one of the most enigmatic figures in the Hebrew Bible, and one of the earliest to be referenced outside the biblical text. In […]
Dec 25 Blog
By: Marvin A. Sweeney
Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context Edited by Christopher A. Rollston (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018), 624 pp., tables, graphs, 1 […]
Oct 18 Blog
By: Hershel Shanks
We knew it would happen, but it’s still a shock. Frank Cross is dead. I will leave it to scholars to write of his scholarly accomplishments. I will write only of what I know: He stood at the very pinnacle of the profession, universally respected and admired. When he spoke, others stood in awe. The Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, the third oldest endowed academic chair in the United States, Cross was a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls, in obscure ancient languages, in the science of dating ancient inscriptions based on shape of the letters, in the Biblical text and in archaeology, to name but a few.
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