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BAR Interviews Avraham Eitan

Antiquities director confronts problems and controversies

By Hershel Shanks

Hershel Shanks: Avi, I’m especially appreciative of this interview because over the years we’ve disagreed about many things, but we’ve remained friends, and we’ve always been able to talk about our differences. And that’s a very gratifying thing. You haven’t liked everything that’s appeared in BAR. But you once told me that it’s the only archaeological magazine that you read from cover to cover. Is that still true? Avraham Eitan: It’s one of the publications, archaeological magazines, that’s so interesting you can read it from cover to cover, not only because of its archaeological reports and archaeological information, but […]

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Footnotes

1.

A brief account, with a plan, appeared in Hadashot Archaeologiot 82, pp. 106–107.

2.

See “Ancient Farming in the Judean Wilderness,” BAR 03:03.

3.

Subsequent to this interview, Mr. Eitan advised us (in April 1986) that he has had two meetings with Père Benoit, that Père Benoit has now heard from all scholars with scroll assignments, and that Père Benoit has given Mr. Eitan a report in English on the progress and proposed progress for completion of the scholars’ work. Mr. Eitan declined to make this report available at this time, but said it will be discussed during the coming months and the Department of Antiquities and Museums will then decide what to do.—Ed.

4.

In reviewing the transcript of this interview, Mr. Eitan advised that “There is a concordance which the late Père de Vaux, the chief editor at the time, instructed to be made.”

5.

In reviewing the transcript of this interview, Mr. Eitan wrote instead of the foregoing sentence, “If a scholar obtains the approval of the chief editor and the Shrine of the Book, which, as already mentioned, is also involved.”