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BARview: Pierre Benoit, O.P. 1906–1987

By Hershel Shanks

Père Pierre Benoit, one of the world’s most distinguished Biblical scholars and an expert on the archaeology of Jerusalem, died in Jerusalem on April 23 at the age of 81, following a long bout with cancer. For more than half a century, he lived and taught at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in the city he loved and knew so well. Père Benoit was an authority not only on Jerusalem and its archaeology, but also on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He served as chairman of the international publication committee responsible for publishing most of the Dead Sea Scrolls. […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Hershel Shanks, “Kathleen Kenyon’s Anti-Zionist Politics,” BAR 01:03.

2.

See Hershel Shanks, “The City of David After Five Years of Digging,” BAR 11:06.

3.

See Yigal Shiloh, “Jerusalem’s Water Supply During Siege—The Rediscovery of Warren’s Shaft,” BAR 07:04.

4.

See “The Peculiar Headrests for the Dead in First Temple Times,” in this issue, and Barkay and Kloner, “Jerusalem Tombs From the Days of the First Temple,” BAR 12:02.