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Controversy: Academic Debate Crosses the Line

Leading Israeli Archaeologist Charged with Zionist Bias

By Hershel Shanks

We all take pride in our for bears and in our traditions. Proud to be Irish. Or proud to be Jewish.

Or proud to be Israeli.

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Footnotes

1.

“Should the Term ‘Biblical Archaeology’ Be Abandoned?” BAR May/June 1981.

2.

“Is This Man a Biblical Archaeologist? BAR Interviews William Dever—Part One,” BAR July/August 1996. “Whatchamacallit: Why It’s So Hard to Name our Field,” BAR July/August 2003.

3.

Ephraim Stern, “The Babylonian Gap,” BAR November/December 2000; Joseph Blenkinsopp, “The Babylonian Gap Revisited: There Was No Gap,” BAR May/June 2002; Ephraim Stern, “The Babylonian Gap Revisited: Yes There Was,” BAR May/June 2002.

4.

Joseph A. Blenkinsopp, “The Bible, Archaeology and Politics; or the Empty Land Revisited,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 27, no. 2 (2002), pp. 169–187.