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The Welcome Mat Is Out … Until You’re Asked to Leave!

By Hershel Shanks

I wasn’t really kicked out. I was just asked to leave—very politely. Still, it was a little embarrassing. I was at a joint meeting of CAP—ASOR’sa Committee on Archaeological Policy—and AMC—its Ancient Manuscript Committee, having just come from a separate meeting of the Ancient Manuscript Committee, chaired by Notre Dame’s James VanderKam. The AMC had been considering a policy statement on freer access for all scholars to manuscript discoveries like the Dead Sea Scrolls (now happily available to all scholars) in an effort to avoid a repetition of the situation that once prevailed with the scrolls. Before the AMC […]

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Footnotes

1.

ASOR is the acronym for the American Schools of Oriental Research, the leading American scholarly organization of Biblical archaeologists. ASOR publishes several scholarly journals, including its well-known Bulletin (BASOR) and the semischolarly Biblical Archaeologist.

2.

The Annual Meeting is the common name for the joint annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR), which was held in San Francisco, November 21 to 24, 1992.

3.

See Hershel Shanks, “Not So Up-To-Date in Kansas City,” BAR 18:02.