1987 Annual Meeting in Boston: A Wild, Wonderful Academic Circus

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There is nothing quite like it—the joint once-a-year sessions of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), known to all as the Annual Meeting. For four days—in Boston from December 5 through 8, 1987—it was total immersion. More than 5,000 scholars, teachers, job-seekers and interested laypeople—the largest number ever to register for the Annual Meeting—stuffed into eight hotels to jostle, to gossip, to gape at slides of the new finds, to doze as speaker after speaker droned on in dozens of simultaneous sessions, to riffle through […]

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Footnotes

See “BARview: Failure to Publish Dead Sea Scrolls is Leitmotif of New York University Scroll Conference,” BAR 11:05 and “BARview: Israeli Authorities Now Responsible for Delay in Publication of Dead Sea Scrolls,” BAR 11:05; “Jerusalem Rolls Out Red Carpet for Biblical Archaeology Congress,” BAR 10:04.

See “Should the Term Biblical Archaeology Be Abandoned?” BAR 07:03; “Dever’s Sermon on the Mound,” BAR 13:02.

Bar-Ilan’s Israel Finkelstein, Lawrence Stager, New York Theological Seminary’s Norman Gottwald, University of Michigan’s Peter Machinist, Robert Corte of San Francisco Theological Seminary, Keith Whitelam of the University of Stirling, and Dever himself.

See “Megiddo Stables or Storehouses?” BAR 02:03.

“The Stables of Ancient Israel,” by John S. Holladay, Jr., in The Archaeology of Jordan and Other Studies, Lawrence T. Geraty and Larry G. Herr, eds. (Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews Univ. Press, 1986), pp. 103–166. Holladay’s conclusions were first announced in Queries & Comments, BAR 03:01.

“Finders of a Real Lost Ark—American Archaeologists Find Remains of Ancient Synagogue Ark in Galilee,” BAR 07:06, by Carol and Eric Meyers; “Was There a Seven-Branched Lampstand in Solomon’s Temple?” BAR 05:05, by Carol Meyers; “Digging the Talmud in Ancient Meiron,” BAR 04:02, by Carol and Eric Meyers.

“Whither ASOR?” BAR 09:05, by Hershel Shanks.