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First Person: A New Target

By Hershel Shanks

Regular readers of this column will hardly be surprised to learn that this edition of “First Person” deals with an archaeological controversy. It is also true that I can be critical of any scholar whom I feel is clearly on the wrong side. But I do not make scholarly judgments. I am not a paleographer. I can make judgments, however, about the reasoning of scholars. When I feel a scholar is making a wrong call based on the scholarly record, I can be harsh—or at least some would say so. In these circumstances, it would seem that I should […]

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Footnotes

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See “Fudging with Forgeries,” BAR 37:06; Strata, “Accused BAR Editor Replies,” BAR 37:06; “How an Israeli Forgery Committee Operates,” BAR 35:02; “Is This Inscription Fake? You Decide,” BAR 33:05.

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André Lemaire, “Probable Head of Priestly Scepter from Solomon’s Temple Surfaces in Jerusalem,” BAR 10:01.

Endnotes

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Shmuel Ahituv, Aaron Demsky, Yuval Goren and André Lemaire, “The Inscribed Ivory Pomegranate from the Israel Museum Examined Again,” Israel Exploration Journal 57 (2007), pp. 87–95.