Absorbing Archaeology at the Jerusalem Congress

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A congress on Biblical archaeology can’t help but be successful in Jerusalem. The subject seeps from Jerusalem’s stones. And the Second International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, held between June 24 and July 4, 1990, was indeed successful.a Imagine: The festive opening held in the ancient Citadel of the Old City, a structure dating back to Herodian times and even earlier. More than 600 people from all over the world—from Japan to Brazil, from South Africa to Norway, from Czechoslovakia and Romania to the United States, Canada, England and France, indeed from 25 countries from the four corners of […]

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Footnotes

The Congress was sponsored by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Israel Exploration Society. All of the arrangements were superbly handled by Joseph Aviram, executive secretary of the Israel Exploration Society, ably assisted by Janet Amitai.

Hershel Shanks, “Jerusalem Rolls Out Red Carpet for Biblical Archaeology Congress,” BAR 10:04.

“Dead Sea Scroll Variation on ‘Show and Tell’—It’s Called ‘Tell, But No Show,’” BAR 16:02.

See Raphael Levy, “First ‘Dead Sea Scroll’ Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries,” BAR 08:05.