Word: hershel
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...surprise that violent passions were aroused by Israel's tampering with the ground beneath the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque." No ground beneath either shrine was touched (as noted, ironically enough, on the same day on the Post's op-ed page by archaeological scholar Hershel Shanks...
...recorded the prophecies of Jeremiah in 587 B.C. (Because Jews and Muslims don't consider the birth of Christ to be a defining moment in history, many scholars prefer the term B.C.E. to B.C. It stands for either "Before the Christian Era" or "Before the Common Era.") Says Hershel Shanks, founding editor of the influential magazine Biblical Archaeology Review: "Seldom does archaeology come face to face with people actually mentioned in the Bible...
Some experts, however, were more critical of the IAA decision. Hershel C. Shanks, the editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, called the announcement "kind of a subterfuge," and said that "the IAA is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century...
Even so, publication is a triumph for scholars who have grown old waiting to see the material. Publisher Hershel Shanks of the Biblical Archaeology Society in Washington portrays his group as scholarly Robin Hoods. "This is a historic book," he says, that "broke the monopoly" on unpublished scrolls. But the authorized group is outraged. "What else can one call it but stealing?" asks John Strugnell of Harvard University, who was removed as the team's chief editor last year, ostensibly for health reasons, after he called Judaism a "horrible" and "racist" religion...