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...Stager's whole history is philo-Judaic. Part of his graduate training was taken at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University. In his early years he was a beloved protege of Benjamin Mazar, the doyen of Israeli archaeologists. Stager was awarded one of he largest and richest of the pristine archaeological sites left in Israel by the Israeli Council on Archaeology. To pair Stager with Lowell is unconscionable, and Peretz should publicly apologize, or in any case repudiate the anti-Semitic interpretation generally and most plausibly given...
...Stager did not issue a flat ban on the raising of funds. Rather, during the life of the Advisory Committee, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, supported by Stager, required that any approaches for money be cleared through the Dean and the Director of the Museum. This was prudent. If the Museum goals were to be redefined in order to focus them on the museum's central tasks in the University, attempts to raise funds should not be sought primarily or wholly for peripheral projects, binding the Museum to continue its lop-sided program indefinitely into...
...Stager came to Harvard from the University of Chicago in 1986, and in July, 1987 became Director of the Museum. Peretz observes, "Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned, but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys of the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises...
...fact, Stager came to the museum with an enormous interest in the traditional archaeological and teaching tasks of the Museum, for which it was founded, for the exploration of the ancient Near East, and for the academic training of a new generation of archaeologists in the field, as well as for its public exhibits of artifacts won in the field work of the museum. Indeed in the raising of the endowment for the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, one of the chief arguments made to the donor was the desperate need for a distinguished archaeologist to give leadership...
...claim of Peretz [surely not on the basis of his own knowledge] that Stager is an extraordinarily narrow specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif in the recommendations of senior scholars from many nations, including Israel's most distinguished archaeologists, was the extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern...