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Sep 17 Blog

The Oldest Hebrew Script and Language

In a BAR article, epigraphy scholar Christopher Rollston asks a seemingly straightforward question: What is the oldest Hebrew inscription?

Jul 11 Blog

Tarshish: Hacksilber Hoards Pinpoint Solomon’s Silver Source

By: Noah Wiener

What is the location of Tarshish, the Biblical source of the Phoenician silver trade? A Hacksilber Project study points to Spain and Sardinia as the Biblical world’s source of silver in the 10th century B.C.E., lending scientific credence to textual associations between Biblical Tarshish and modern Sardinia.

Jul 5 Blog

BAR Interview with Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel died on July 2, 2016. Read an interview BAR Editor Hershel Shanks conducted with Wiesel and Biblical scholar Frank Moore Cross, republished from BAR, July/August 2004.

Oct 18 Blog

The End of an Era

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.

May 1 Blog

Where Is Jezebel?

By: Ryan Byrne

Back to Scholars Debate “Jezebel” Seal Call me old-fashioned, but I like my seals belonging to biblical characters to mention the biblical character to […]

May 1 Blog

Rollston Responds to Shanks

By: Christopher A. Rollston

Back to Scholars Debate “Jezebel” Seal I read with great disappointment the polemical and condescending statements of Hershel Shanks about my research in general. […]

May 1 Blog

Is it “Tenable”?

By: Hershel Shanks

After the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz got wind that BAR would be publishing the foregoing article, it published its own story in October 2007 about the Jezebel seal and Professor Korpel's attribution to Queen Jezebel. Korpel's article, the newspaper wrote, is "scheduled to appear in the highly-respected Biblical Archaeology Review."

Feb 8 Blog

Shanks Responds to Burleigh

By: Hershel Shanks

Back to Israel Antiquities Authority vs. Conspiracy of (Alleged) Forgers I have concentrated on the James Ossuary Inscription and the Ivory Pomegranate Inscription, both charged […]

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