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First Person: Israel Antiquities Authority Suspects BAR Editor of Colluding with Forgers

A report from Kafka-land.

By Hershel Shanks

It was a surreal experience. My long-time colleague, Suzanne Singer, and I were in London this past July for the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (International Assyriological Congress) at the British Museum. Taking a break from lectures with titles like “Ishtar of Nineveh’s Collaboration with Ishtar of Arbela in an Assurbanipal Hymn” and “Trade Relations Between Mari and Hazor,” we decided to pay a visit to Shlomo Moussaieff, who has one of the world’s great collections of antiquities relating to the Bible and the ancient Near East. I know Shlomo well because I interviewed him for a profile in BARa and […]

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Footnotes

1.

“Magnificent Obsession,” BAR 22:03.

2.

See Rudolf Cohen and Yigal Yisrael, “Smashing the Idols,” BAR 22:04.

3.

“Burial Box of James, the Brother of Jesus,” BAR 28:06.

4.

See “Assessing the Jehoash Inscription,” BAR 29:03.

5.

“Israel Antiquities Authority Declines Dirty Money,” BAR 29:04.