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First Person: What to Do with Unprovenanced Artifacts—Publish or Perish?

By Hershel Shanks

Two books recently came across my desk that reveal yet another cleavage within the archaeological profession.

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Footnotes

1.

See Hershel Shanks, “ ‘Brother of Jesus’ Inscription Is Authentic!” BAR 38:04.

2.

See Eilat Mazar, “The Wall That Nehemiah Built,” BAR 35:02; Eilat Mazar, “Did I Find King David’s Palace?” BAR 35:02.

3.

See “Festschrift for Moussaieff,” BAR 29:06.

Endnotes

1.

Eric M. Meyers and Carol Meyers, eds., Archaeology, Bible, Politics, and the Media (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2012).

2.

Meir Lubetski and Edith Lubetski, eds., New Inscriptions and Seals Relating to the Biblical World (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2012).