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In 1986, the Leopold and Clara M. Fellner Charitable Foundation established awards of $500 each for the best articles in BR and in Biblical Archeology Review (BAR). Four distinguished judges have been selected to choose the recipients of the 1987 Fellner Awards. The judges for BR will be Frank Moore Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, and Philip King, Professor of Biblical Studies at Boston College.
Cross, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of BR, is known to BR readers as the author of “Original Biblical Text Reconstructed from Newly Found Fragment,” BR 01:03 and “The Text Behind the Text of the Hebrew Bible,” BR 01:02.
King is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of BR and has written several book reviews for BAR.
The judges for BAR will be Oded Borowski, Director of the Semitic Languages Division of the Department of Modern Languages at Emory University, and Lawrence Stager, Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum. Borowski serves on the editorial board of BAR in addition to being a frequent contributor. Stager has also contributed to BAR.
Last year the Fellner Award for the best BR article was shared by Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis, for “Different Ways of Looking at the Birth of Jesus,” BR 01:01 and Jacob Milgrom, for “You Shall Not Boil a Kid in its Mother’s Milk,” BR 01:03.
The Fellner Foundation was established by Leopold and Clara Fellner to perpetuate the name and memory of their parents, Rabbi Joel Fellner and Gisella Schreiber and Ernest Mannheimer and Arabella Weiss. The winners of the second annual Fellner Awards will be announced in the Spring BR and in the January/February BAR
In 986, the Leopold and Clara M. Fellner Charitable Foundation established awards of $500 each for the best articles in BR and in Biblical Archeology Review (BAR). Four distinguished judges have been selected to choose the recipients of the 1987 Fellner Awards. The judges for BR will be Frank Moore Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, and Philip King, Professor of Biblical Studies at Boston College. Cross, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of BR, is known to BR readers as the author of “Original Biblical Text Reconstructed from Newly Found Fragment,” […]
