“Your Journal Is Not to My Taste”

In the June 1977 issue of the BAR you initiated a crusade against excavators who withhold information and photographs of unpublished finds to the press (“Tight-Lipped Archaeologists—How the Press Erred,” BAR 03:02). For some reason you chose me as the main target for your attack. In the December issue, you continued your crusade against me with even greater stress (“Without Avigad’s Pictures—Is the Jerusalem Cardo Roman After All?” BAR 03:04). If the purpose of your repeated efforts was to provoke me to react, you succeeded in doing so. I would like to communicate to BAR readers the following remarks. […]