There Has Been A First Class
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:43 pm
pissing contest going on between Hershel Shanks and the Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) and a number of scholars. One of these, Joe Zias, fires back.
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/zias.shtml
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/zias.shtml
For years, BAR has promoted itself as having championed the interests of the Dead Sea Scrolls; in fact, Shanks continually presents himself as “liberating the scrolls from a handful of scholars and making them available to all scholars. The opposite is true.”