After much thought about the First Person for this, our 200th issue, we finally decided that the most relevant—and appropriate—words we could offer are those that introduced The Biblical Archaeology Review more than 34 years ago in our first issue. We don’t consider “The” to be part of our title anymore, but otherwise it seemed just right. Reprinting it is, in effect, our recommitment ceremony, like getting married again to the same person after years of happiness together.—H.S. The aim of The Biblical Archaeology Review is to make available in understandable language the current insights of professional archaeology as […]
