(RNS) — As founder of the Biblical Archaeology Review, Shanks helped bridge academic scholarship with the lay public’s appetite for answers to questions about key archaeological and historical events ...

Shanks was the former publisher and editor of Moment magazine, and his Biblical Archaeology Review reached more than 250,000 subscribers at its peak. (JTA) — Hershel Shanks, the one-time publisher and ...

When the first issue of Biblical Archaeology Review was published 40 years ago, it was little more than a one-man show. Founder and editor Hershel Shanks wrote nearly all the content of that first ...

Hershel Shanks battled top scholars to make the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public. Hershel Shanks, the founder and longtime editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, died on Friday at the age of ...

In an article in Biblical Archaeology Review Eilat Mazar, an archaeologist associated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, announced the discovery of a clay seal that appears to bear the name of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, replies to The ...

WASHINGTON — Biblical Archaeology Review will hold a press conference at 10 AM EDT on Tuesday, August 11, to announce a shocking but valid interpretation concerning the creation of the first ...

There aren’t too many scholarly journals that can be read recreationally; one of them is the Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR). Despite what the name might suggest, the BAR is in no sense a religious ...

Robert Siegel talks with Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. about a limestone box with the Aramaic inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." The review has published an ...