Hershel Shanks, Author Random House (NY) $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-41448-3
Culled from the pages of Biblical Archaeology Review , edited by Shanks, these essays by scholars in the field shed further light on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered in the Qumran caves east of Jerusalem in 1947. Eschewing the mainstream...
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Hershel Shanks, Author Random House (NY) $50 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44526-5
Shanks, president of the Biblical Archaeology Sociey and editor of Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls (Random, 1993), has produced a sumptuous commemorative volume to mark the ""3,000th anniversary of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel."" He...
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Hershel Shanks, Author Random House (NY) $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-679-45757-2
Fifty years ago, a shepherd rummaging through caves surrounding the Dead Sea discovered a number of scrolls and scroll fragments that provided a glimpse into Judaism in the years between the takeover of Jerusalem by Pompeii in 64 B.C. and the...
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Hershel Shanks, Author, Ben Witherington, III, Author . Harper San Francisco $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-055660-0
Last October, biblical archaeologists stunned the world with news that a limestone ossuary with the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" had surfaced in Palestine and may have once contained the bones of James, the early...
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