A Benedictine monk, Bargil Pixner (“Jerusalem’s Essene Gateway”) lives in the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion, where he teaches Biblical archaeology. He is the co-author, with George Hintilian, of The Glory of Bethlehem (Jerusalem Publishing House, 1981). In a previous BAR article, “Church of the Apostles Found on Mt. Zion,” BAR 16:03, Pixner identified the traditional tomb of David as the site of a first-century Judeo-Christian synagogue. Fred Reiner (“Tracking the Shapira Case”) is the rabbi at Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C. His report on “C.D. Ginsburg and the Shapira Affair” appeared in the British Library Journal (Spring 1995). […]
