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The Death of a Discipline

By William G. Dever

As readers of BAR may know, I have long maintained a principle of not writing articles for the magazine, although I remain good friends with editor Hershel Shanks, and I do assist with slide sets, seminars, tours and the Biblical Archaeology Society’s various educational enterprises. My reluctance to give direct approval to BAR, even though it performs much good service to our profession, is simple: I abhor the controversy the magazine often engenders, and I disapprove (as most professionals do) of antiquities ads because I believe they encourage illegal trade in antiquities. Nevertheless, I have always said to […]

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Footnotes

1.

See the following three articles by Lawrence Stager in BAR: “When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02; “Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon?” BAR 17:03; and “Eroticism and Infanticide at Ashkelon,” BAR 17:04.

2.

See Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin, “Ekron of the Philistines,” BAR 16:01; and “Buried Philistine Treasures Unearthed at Tel Miqne-Ekron,” BAR 19:01.

3.

See Ehud Netzer and Zeev Weiss, “New Mosaic Art from Sepphoris,” BAR 18:06; and Richard A. Batey, “Sepphoris—An Urban Portrait of Jesus,” BAR 18:03.

4.

I know this well because I have encouraged and trained several of their archaeologists, including Randall Younker, director of the Horn Archaeological Museum at Andrews University.

5.

Duke specializes in the archaeology of later periods, chiefly the rabbinic and New Testament periods.