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The Age of BAR

Scholars Talk About How the Field Has Changed

New questions, new technologies, new specialties all leave their mark on the way archaeologists work.

By Hershel Shanks

Archaeological periods are not always easy to define; for example, we cannot gauge precisely when the Late Bronze Age turned into Iron Age I. Not so, however, with the Age of BAR. This spring marks the end of BAR’s 25th year of publication, what we call BAR Age I (and the beginning of BAR Age II). How to celebrate such an occasion? When we hit our 20th anniversary, we published “A Short History of BAR”; a survey that asked readers to name the most interesting man and 022woman in the Bible; comments from scholars on Biblical archaeology’s greatest […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Baruch Halpern, “Erasing History—The Minimalist Assault on Ancient Israel,” Bible Review, December 1995.

2.

See “Archaeology’s Dirty Secret,” BAR 20:05.