{"id":65317,"date":"2021-02-08T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblicalarchaeology.org\/?page_id=65317"},"modified":"2021-02-19T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:41:32","slug":"scaling-ivory-towers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.biblicalarchaeology.org\/obituary\/scaling-ivory-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaling Ivory Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Alan Millard<\/p>\n<p>To see yourself as others see you can be helpful, instructive, revealing, disconcerting, and even irritating! Hershel styles himself \u201can archaeology outsider\u201d in his autobiography. Although his first candid comments on archaeologists and their practices and his attempts to play one off against another riled many professionals, through the past 40 years, each has learned to value the other and benefited greatly. Hershel\u2019s generous spirit has created a worldwide circle of friends happy to share their knowledge. It\u2019s a pleasure to be one of them. When my wife answers the phone and calls out, \u201cIt\u2019s Hershel,\u201d his cheerful voice brings encouragement\u2014and requests!<\/p>\n<p><strong>BAR<\/strong> embodies the joyful energy, initiative, and enthusiasm of this \u201carchaeology outsider,\u201d who brought academics and their research from their ivory towers down to the street where he has made the relevance of their work for biblical studies known.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19641 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalarchaeology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/alan-millard.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Millard\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 100px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 100\/125;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Millard<\/strong>\u202fis the Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at the University of Liverpool and author of\u202f<em>Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire<\/em>\u202f(Eisenbrauns, 1994),\u202f<em>Discoveries from Bible Times<\/em>\u202f(Lion Publishing, 1997) and\u202f<em>Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus<\/em>\u202f(Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), among others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><center><\/center><center>&#8212;<\/center><em>The Biblical Archaeology Society remembers the life and achievements of Biblical Archaeology Review\u2019s founder and Editor Emeritus, Hershel Shanks, who <a href=\"https:\/\/legcy.co\/3cMzTcM\">passed away February 5, 2021<\/a> at the age of 90. Across more than four decades, beginning in 1974 until his retirement in 2017, Hershel transformed <strong>BAR<\/strong> from a relatively modest publication reflecting his deep personal interest in the biblical past into the world\u2019s best-selling and most widely read biblical archaeology magazine, enjoyed by millions.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have collected reflections on Hershel\u2019s legacy from some of his colleagues and dear friends. Many of these originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baslibrary.org\/biblical-archaeology-review\/44\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Festschrift: A Celebration of Hershel Shanks<\/a>, the special double issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, published in 2018. Please enjoy these memories and celebrate Hershel\u2019s contributions to the fields of biblical archaeology and biblical studies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalarchaeology.org\/obituary\/\">In Memory of Hershel Shanks Main Page<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alan Millard To see yourself as others see you can be helpful, instructive, revealing, disconcerting, and even irritating! 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