Long-Winded in the Windy City

Home > Magazines > BAR > March/April 1995

“Overwhelming” is the only word to describe the 1994 Annual Meeting,a where 7,500 scholars attended more than 700 presentations. Imagine jumping into a huge wave high above your head, extending for miles along the shore on either side. Imagine trying to embrace it, and you will understand the feeling of someone trying to encompass the Annual Meeting as it has now evolved. That’s not a complaint. It’s just a statement of fact. To pretend that what I write is in any sense a comprehensive review of the meeting would only be to deceive myself—and the reader. This is my […]

You have already read your free article for this month. Please join the BAS Library or become an All Access member of BAS to gain full access to this article and so much more.

Join the BAS Library!

Already a library member? Log in here.

Institution user? Log in with your IP address or Username

Footnotes

The joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), November 19–22, 1994, in Chicago.

John M. Allegro, “The Shapira Affair,” BAR 05:04.

See “MMT As the Maltese Falcon,” BAR 20:06.

Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Alain Chambon, Fouilles de Khirbet Qumran et de Ain Feshkha (Editions Universitaires Fribourg Suisse and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gottingen, 1994); reviewed in Books in Brief, BAR 21:01.