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Peace, Politics and Archaeology

By Hershel Shanks

The Middle East “peace process”—may it be thy will, O Lord—has raised two thorny archaeological issues. Both have recently been in the news.

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Footnotes

1.

See Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, “Fifteen Years in Sinai,” BAR 10:04.

2.

See the following BAR articles: “Cache of Hebrew and Phoenician Inscriptions Found in the Desert,” BAR 02:01, and André Lemaire, “Who or What Was Yahweh’s Asherah?” BAR 10:06.

3.

See Hershel Shanks, “Excavating Anthropoid Coffins in the Gaza Strip,” BAR 02:01; see also “The Philistines and the Dothans—An Archaeological Romance, Part 2,” BAR 19:05.

4.

For a first-hand description of some of the dramatic finds, including a white-robed skeleton, discovered in caves with collapsed ceilings, see Baruch Safrai, “More Scrolls Lie Buried,” BAR 19:01.

5.

See Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel and Ada Yardeni, “Rare DSS Text Mentions King Jonathan,” BAR 20:01.

Endnotes

1.

Jeanette Greenfield, The Return of Cultural Treasures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) p. 296.

2.

Magnus Magnusson in Greenfield, The Return of Cultural Treasures, p. 9.