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Plenty of spice at Annual Meeting

By Hershel Shanks

I suppose I should have known it would happen someday. Perhaps the next thing will be a Ph.D. dissertation analyzing the “BAR phenomenon.” The scholarly community sometimes can’t quite understand us—so it tries to explain us. Absent a full-fledged doctoral dissertation, a scholarly paper was devoted to the phenomenon at the Annual Meeting of Bible scholars in New Orleans last November.a Speaking before a capacity audience of academicians, Philip R. Davies of Sheffield University, England, read a lecture entitled “A Reader-Response to ‘Shanks’s Bible.’” In it, he analyzed BAR (and our sister magazine, Bible Review) from four viewpoints: the […]

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Footnotes

1.

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 23–26, 1996.

2.

See the following two-part interview with William Dever in BAR: “Is This Man a Biblical Archaeologist?” BAR 22:04; “Is the Bible Right After All?” BAR 22:05.

3.

See Jodi Magness, “What Was Qumran? Not a Country Villa,” BAR 22:06.

4.

See “Archaeological Hot Spots: A Roundup of Digs in Israel,” BAR 22:06.

5.

The presenters included William Dever of the University of Arizona, Jane Cahill of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jeffrey Zorn of the Tell en-Nasbeh Research Project, Oystein LaBianca of Andrews University, Weston Fields of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, David Schloen of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, and J.P. Dessel (with Jodi Magness of Tufts University).

6.

See “Scholar Claims Bible Scholars Suppress Palestinian History in Favor of Israelites,” BAR 22:02.

7.

See Philip R. Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand,” BAR 20:04.

8.

See “Mitchell Dahood—In Memoriam,” BAR 08:03.

9.

ASOR’s annual meeting will be held at Napa, California, November 15 to 20, 1997, immediately before the AAR/SBL annual meeting.