This year brings the 35th anniversary of BAR and the Biblical Archaeology Society. Traditionalists may say that this anniversary should be celebrated with coral, or perhaps jade, but we all know those aren’t the kind of stones we’re interested in. Instead, we’re planning a special section in our March/April issue (the official anniversary of our inaugural March 1975 issue of BAR). Then, in each of the remaining issues this year, we’ll bring you a new interview with one of the prominent people in the field, starting with Israel Finkelstein of Tel-Aviv University, whose low chronology for dating the Biblical […]
