For years, as editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, I have attended the annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and written about my impressions of these meetings. Since we launched Archaeology Odyssey, I have also been attending meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), and several people have asked me to review these meetings in the magazine. I’m not sure I want to do that, but I thought I would share some of my reactions to the AIA meeting in Dallas that took place in late December 1999. Actually, it’s a joint meeting of the AIA […]
