Professor R. Thomas Schaub of Indiana University of Pennsylvania has resigned as a judge in BAR’s Biblical Archaeology Essay Contest. Schaub’s resignation arrived in August, less than a month before the entry deadline. The contest will be judged by the remaining two judges, Professor Menahem Mansoor of the University of Wisconsin and Professor Kenneth G. Holum of the University of Maryland. Over 80 entries in the essay contest were received at the BAR office by the September 1 deadline. Schaub’s resignation was triggered by an article in the May/June BAR describing a false claim that the Ark of the Covenant […]
