Hershel Shanks founded the Biblical Archaeology Society in 1974, when I was one year old. He founded Biblical Archaeology Review the following year. Since that time, BAR has grown into the largest-circulating, best-selling, and most widely read Biblical archaeology magazine in the world. BAR has not only brought the latest and most important archaeological discoveries from the Holy Land to the public, but has also offered scholarly opinions and editorials on their relevance to the Bible, its composition, the people described in its pages, and the people who have venerated it as the Word of God throughout the ages. […]
