Posts Tagged ‘shanks’

The Strength of Symbolism: Lamb Shanks with Apricots and Prunes

Passover is often referred to as Hag HaMatzot (the feast of unleavened bread) and matzo, the bread of affliction, is definitely the star of this holiday. The prohibition against eating chametz has us cleaning our homes and ridding our kitchens of anything and everything that contains grain, from alcohol to vinegar, from cereal to cakes, […]

Hershel Shanks, popularizer of biblical archaeology, dies at 90

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 […]

Dead Sea Scrolls liberator Hershel Shanks passes away at 90

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, […]

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