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Fellner awards to honor best articles in BR and Biblical Archaeology Review
After a year’s absence, the Fellner Awards are returning with increased funding in the form of an additional prize. Begun in 1986 by the Leopold and Clara M. Fellner Charitable Foundation, the awards honor the year’s best articles in BR and its companion magazine, Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR). The first-prize winners will each receive $500, and the winners of the newly established, second prize will each receive $250.
Previous Fellner Award winners for the best BR articles have been Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis (“Different Ways of Looking at the Birth of Jesus,” BR 01:01) and Jacob Milgrom (“You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk,” BR 01:03), who shared the first award, and Jacob Neusner (“Parallel Histories of Early Christianity and Judaism,” BR 03:01).
We have selected four distinguished judges to choose the recipients of the 1989 Fellner Awards. The judges for BR will be Nahum Sarna, professor emeritus of biblical studies at Brandeis University, and J. Cheryl Exum, associate professor of Old Testament at Boston College. The judges for BAR will be Joe D. Seger, professor of Middle Eastern archaeology at Mississippi State University’s Cobb Institute of Archaeology, and Dan P.Cole, professor of religion at Lake Forest College, in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Sarna, a member of the BAR Editorial Advisory Board, is the general editor for The JPS (Jewish Publication Society) Torah Commentary, a new series of commentaries on the first five books of the Bible. His commentary on Genesis, recently published in this series, will be reviewed in a future BR. He contributed “Ruminations of a Jewish Bible Scholar” to the My View department in the June 1988 BR.
Exum, who served on the Revised Standard Version Bible Translation committee (1983–1987), is the author of numerous scholarly articles, including contributions to the Harper’s Bible Dictionary and to the forthcoming Anchor Bible Dictionary. Her article, “The Mothers of Israel,” appeared in the Spring 1986 BR.
The Fellner Foundation was established by Leopold and Clara Fellner to perpetuate the family name. The trustee of the foundation is Frederick L. Simmons, of the Los Angeles law firm Simmons, Ritchie, Segal and Stark. The winners of the third Fellner Awards will be announced in forthcoming issues of BR and BAR.
Brooklyn museum to exhibit works by James Tissot and William Blake
Readers will soon have the chance to see exhibitions of works by two artists frequently featured in BR, French artist James Tissot (1836–1902) and the English poet-painter-engraver William Blake (1757–1827). “A Selection from Tissot’s ‘Life of Christ’: Watercolors from the Brooklyn Museum” will display approximately 100 gouaches from Tissot’s “Life of Christ” series; one work from this series appeared in the
Correction
We have fallen victim to high-tech. In the shift from conventional typesetting to computer aided design, a line of type was dropped from the October 1989 issue. In “What Did Jesus Really Say?” BR 05:05, by Marcus Borg, the last sentence in the first paragraph should read, “Red means ‘Yes, almost certainly’; pink means ‘More likely yes than no’; gray means ‘More likely no than yes’; and black means ‘Almost certainly not.’ ”
Fellner awards to honor best articles in BR and Biblical Archaeology Review
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