Gifts to Iran Won’t Improve the Dire Situation in Yemen
Washington’s misguided appeasement of the Houthis.
February 9, 2021
Remembering the Man Who Liberated the Dead Sea Scrolls and Popularized Knowledge of Ancient Israel
Defending Israeli archaeology from perverse slanders.
On Friday, Hershel Shanks, the founder and long-time editor of the Biblical Archaeological Review, died at the age of ninety. A lawyer by training, Shanks since 1974 devoted himself to promoting the study of ancient Israel and making the latest scholarship accessible to the general public, earning the respect of many leading academics. His persistent efforts are largely responsible for freeing the Dead Sea Scrolls from the jealous guardianship of a small group of scholars, and their eventual publication. A moving tribute to Shanks by Christopher Rollston, an expert on ancient Hebrew inscriptions, can be found here.
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Not Being a U.S. Priority Can Benefit Israel
Benign neglect.
Remembering the Man Who Liberated the Dead Sea Scrolls and Popularized Knowledge of Ancient Israel
Defending Israeli archaeology from perverse slanders.
One of Renaissance Spain’s Leading Catholic Scholars May Have Been a Secret Jew
Alfonso de Zamora.
How a 19th-Century Russian Rabbi Used the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant to Understand Two of the Talmud’s Great Ethical Debates
The Malbim’s critique of universalism.