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First Person: Gedenkschrift

By Hershel Shanks

Regardless of how critical you may be of these First Person columns, I think you will learn something from this one that you did not know. If you know what a gedenkschrift is, you can stop reading. If you know a little German, you can easily figure it out.

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Footnotes

1.

For Joseph Naveh’s obituary, see Ada Yardeni, Strata: “Milestones: Joseph Naveh (1928–2011),” BAR 38:02.

2.

See “The Storm over the Bone Box,” BAR 29:05; Suzanne F. Singer, Strata: “Defendants Acquitted in Forgery Trial,” BAR 38:03; Strata: “Looking Behind the Forgery Trial of the Century,” BAR 41:01, January/February 2015; Hershel Shanks, “Predilections: Is the ‘Brother of Jesus’ Inscription a Forgery?” BAR 41:05; Hershel Shanks, First Person: “‘Brother of Jesus’ Inscription—Authentic or a Forgery?” BAR 42:04.

Endnotes

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 This account is taken from an introduction to the gedenkschrift by Shaul Shaked, who expresses his gratitude to Shmuel Ahituv for much of the information. See Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies. Joseph Naveh, vol. 32 (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2016).