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Feb 8, 2021 · As founder of the Biblical Archaeology Review, Shanks helped bridge academic scholarship with the lay public’s appetite for answers to questions about key archaeological and historical events...
- What Archaeology Can't Do
- Believers vs. Minimalists
- 'James, Brother of Jesus'
- The Audience
Does archaeology "prove" the Bible? Can it? "All archaeologists today would agree that's an inappropriate aim," Shanks said. "You don't go into archaeology to prove the Bible. Biblical archaeology got a bad name a generation ago because some did try to do that. But that's no longer an issue. "If you need archaeology to prove your faith, you must ha...
One of the hot scholarly controversies chronicled by BAR is the ongoing battle between Bible-believers (maximalists) and the "minimalists"—archaeologists who claim the Bible narrative is mostly propaganda and fiction generated by Jews fairly late in their history. At the heart of this controversy is a debate over the historical existence of a Unite...
One of the most exciting and controversial finds in recent years is the "James Ossuary." This is a stone box used to hold a dead man's bones, in keeping with Judean burial customs of the 1st century A.D. Many others have been found, including one that once held the bones of the high priest, Caiaphas, who figures prominently in the Gospel of John. O...
Although BAR features articles by world-class specialists, the magazine is tailored to a general audience. One of its more innovative stunts last year was to offer a $10,000 reward to anyone who could create a forged artifact that would fool the experts—an effort to show how hard it is to manufacture such artifacts. The only takers were a group of ...
Hershel Shanks (March 8, 1930 – February 5, 2021) was an American lawyer and amateur biblical archaeologist who was the founder and long-time editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review. For more than forty years, he communicated the world of biblical archaeology to general readers through magazines, books, and conferences.
The Biblical Archaeology Society was established in 1974 by American lawyer Hershel Shanks, as a non-sectarian organisation that supports and promotes biblical archaeology. [1] Its current publications include the Biblical Archaeology Review, whilst previously circulating the Bible Review (1985–2005) and Archaeology Odyssey (1998–2006).
Oct 30, 2017 · Freeing the Dead Sea Scrolls by Hershel Shanks is a fascinating account of an archaeology outsider and his scrapes with governments, nomads and scoundrels. Shanks was one of the crucial factors that finally brought the Dead Sea Scrolls, vital tools of academic study, to the wider world.
Feb 9, 2015 · Once there, the Shanks family became part of a network of friends and colleagues who comprised some of the archaeological luminaries in the Holy Land at the time. That year proved to be the catalyst for the creation of the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) and its flagship publication, Biblical Archaeology Review.
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The Biblical Archaeology Society remembers the life and achievements of Biblical Archaeology Review’s founder and Editor Emeritus, Hershel Shanks, who passed away February 5, 2021, at the age of 90.
