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Hershel Shanks, Whose Magazine Uncovered Ancient Israel, Dies at 90 For more than 40 years at Biblical Archaeology Review, Mr. Shanks simplified esoteric scholarly articles and crowned them with tantalizing headlines. Hershel Shanks in 1972 in Hezekiah’s Tunnel, beneath the City of David in Jerusalem. Mr. Shanks became fascinated with biblical archaeology while visiting Israel that year and later founded a magazine devoted to the subject.Credit...Biblical Archaeology Society Published March 7, 2021Updated March 13, 2021 Hershel Shanks was neither an archaeologist nor a biblical scholar when...

He founded the magazine Biblical Archaeology Review and waged a successful campaign to make the Dead Sea Scrolls more accessible.

Hershel Shanks battled top scholars to make the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public. Daniel Silliman| Image: Biblical Archaeology Review / Edits by Mallory Rentsch Hershel Shanks, the founder and longtime editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, died on Friday at the age of 90. With his popular bi-monthly magazine, Shanks trumpeted the latest discoveries at digs across the Holy Land, promoted (and sometimes prompted) fierce archaeological controversies, and tirelessly advocated for public access to the latest scholarship. Shanks had no credentials in archaeology, biblical stu...

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