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San Francisco Tremors

Not earthquakes, just academic rumbles

By Hershel Shanks

The Bible is the fault line that divides a significant segment of the scholarly world. It is the attitude toward the Bible that underlies the disparate battles, both institutional and substantive, that are being fought as I write. The fissures are deep.

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Footnotes

1.

See Hershel Shanks, “Whither ASOR?” BAR 09:05.

2.

See Hershel Shanks, “‘Annual Miracle’ Visits Philadelphia,” BAR 22:02 and “Scholar Claims Bible Scholars Suppress Palestinian History in Favor of Israelites,” BAR 22:02; “New Orleans Gumbo: Plenty of Spice at Annual Meeting,” BAR 23:02; “The Biblical Minimalists: Expunging Ancient Israel’s Past,” Bible Review, June 1997.

3.

See, in addition to the historical accounts in 1 and 2 Samuel, Isaiah 1:17a (implying an earlier United Monarchy) and 29:1, and Psalm 53:6

4.

See “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02.

5.

Nadav Na’aman “Cow Town or Royal Capital? Evidence for Iron Age Jerusalem,” BAR 23:04.

6.

Lawrence E. Stager, “The Song of Deborah—Why Some Tribes Answered the Call and Others Did Not,” BAR 15:01.

7.

See “Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers,” BAR 23:04.

8.

See Terence Kleven, “Up the Waterspout,” BAR 20:04.