Milestones: Sami Rohr (1926–2012)

After I enlisted the prominent Christian philanthropist John Mancini as the sponsor of the Mancini Prize for the best paper on the archaeology of early Christianity and the patristic period presented at the annual meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), I telephoned the great Jewish philanthropist Sami Rohr to convince him to sponsor a similar award on the Jewish side, the Sami Rohr Prize for the best paper on Late Antique Judaism and the Talmudic Period. Sami was adamant. He would not permit it to be called the Sami […]