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First Person: BAR Gives Away $50,000

By Hershel Shanks

BAR is giving $50,000 in grants to professional archaeological excavations in Israel. How that came to be has got to be one of the strangest stories in archaeological history.

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Footnotes

1.

Ehud Netzer, “In Search of Herod’s Tomb,” BAR 37:01; Milestones: “Ehud Netzer,” BAR 37:01.

2.

Hershel Shanks, “Was Herod’s Tomb Really Found?” BAR, 40:03.

3.

Queries and Comments: “Fund-raising for Finding Herod’s Tomb,” BAR 40:05; Hershel Shanks, First Person: “What Should We Do with $25,000?” BAR, May/June 2015.

4.

Rami Arav, Richard A. Freund and John F. Shroder, Jr., “Bethsaida Rediscovered,” BAR 26:01.

5.

Tom McCollough, “Searching for Cana: Where Jesus Turned Water into Wine,” BAR 41:06.