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JTA — Hershel Shanks, the one-time publisher and editor of Moment magazine and a powerhouse in the popularization of biblical archaeology, has died at 90. He died Feb. 5 at his home in Washington, D.C., from COVID-19, his daughter told The Washington Post. An attorney by training, in 1975 he started Biblical Archaeology Review, a […]
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Dead Sea Scrolls liberator Hershel Shanks passes away at 90
February 10th, 2021 
Awake Goy Hershel Shanks, founder and former editor of the Biblical Archeology Review (BAR), the world’s best-selling biblical archaeology magazine, has passed away on Friday at 90 years old. He dedicated himself to building an abundant archive of biblical archaeological discoveries for the public, according to the Biblical Archaeology Society. After a sabbatical in Israel in 1972, […]
