Against the Tide: An Interview with Maverick Scholar Cyrus Gordon
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Footnotes
See Shlomo Bunimovitz, “How Mute Stones Speak: Interpreting What We Dig Up,” BAR 21:02; and Joseph A. Callaway, “Sir Flinders Petrie: Father of Palestinian Archaeology,” BAR 06:06.
See David A. Traill and Igor Bogdanov, “Heinrich Schliemann: Improbable Archaeologist,” Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 1999.
In 1894 Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. His conviction was motivated by anti-Semitism, which was then rampant in the French military. Ultimately it was shown that Dreyfus’s conviction was based on forged documents. In 1906 a French court exonerated him, and he was reinstated in the army.
See “Abraham’s Ur: Did Woolley Excavate the Wrong Place?” BAR 26:01; Edward M. Luby, “The Ur-Archaeologist: Leonard Woolley and the Treasures of Mesopotamia,” BAR 23:02; Cyrus H. Gordon, “Where is Abraham’s Ur?” BAR 03:02.
For another view, see P. Kyle McCarter, “Let’s Be Serious About the Bat Creek Stone,” BAR 19:04. See also J. Huston McCulloch, “The Bat Creek Inscription: Did Judean Refugees Escape to Tennessee?” BAR 19:04; and see letters in Queries & Comments, BAR 19:06.
See Frank M. Cross, “Phoenicians in Brazil?” BAR 05:01.
Endnotes
See Peter C. Craigie, “The Tablets From Ugarit and Their Importance for Biblical Studies,” BAR 09:05.
Gary A. Rendsburg, “‘Someone Will Succeed in Deciphering Minoan’: Minoan Linear A as a West Semitic Dialect,” Biblical Archaeologist, 59:1 (1996), pp. 36–43, esp. p. 40.
See J. Huston McCulloch, “The Bat Creek Inscription: Did Judean Refugees Escape to Tennessee?” and P. Kyle McCarter, “Let’s Be Serious About the Bat Creek Stone,” BAR 19:04; letter by Robert R. Stieglitz and response by P. Kyle McCarter, Queries & Comments, BAR 19:06.
The quotes are from Gordon’s autobiography, A Scholar’s Odyssey (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000), pp. 48, 53, 81, 84–85, 105.