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...series of crucial discoveries suggests that some of the Bible's more ancient tales are also based firmly on real people and events. In 1990, Harvard researchers working in the ancient city of Ashkelon, north of the Gaza Strip, unearthed a small silver-plated bronze calf figurine reminiscent of the huge golden calf mentioned in the Book of Exodus. In 1986, archaeologists found the earliest known text of the Bible, dated to about 600 B.C. It suggests that at least part of the Old Testament was written soon after some of the events it describes. Also in 1986, scholars identified...
...fair to Cross, a few of Stager's other friends have also imputed to me an imputation of anti-Semitism to him. The most interesting instance of these is Leon Levy, the Wall Street Financier who provides the funds for Stager's Ashkelon dig. Levy and I have known each other for some years, and we met by accident in the lobby of a London hotel only ten days ago. He upbraided me for what he called my "anti-Semitic insinuations about Stager." I was appalled, and told him that this was an invention (maybe his, maybe Stager's) which...
What is at stake in Professor Stager's determination to throttle the Semitic Museum is nothing less than the definition of a field. God bless the Philistines interred at Ashkelon, and God bless those who have exhumed their remains. But Semitic scholarship is no longer riveted simply on monuments and shards. Semitic cultures and civilizations survive and flourish in our time. President Eliot and Jacob Schiff understood that this would be so, and the men and women who reopened the Semitic Museum in 1982 understood this, too. Over the last decade the Museum has exemplified the extension of the field...
...visitors of the museum have praised theirprojects and exhibits. Since 1992, when the musuemreopened to the public, the museum has hostedexhibits such as "Crossings of the Ancient World,""Ashkelon by the Sea," "The Jewish Experience atHarvard and Radcliffe" and "Harvard's ArabianNights...
...reads Peretz, the Museum's primary activity at Ashkelon is labeled Stager's personal research, not the Museum's. This is bizarre. It is the Museum's most important project. In fact the major effort of the Museum at Ashkelon has been fully funded through the efforts of Professor Stager. But the fact that Ashkelon has not contributed to the Museum's deficit does not disqualify it as a Museum program. Similarly the publication of the Harvard Semitic Museum's two series, the Harvard Semitic Museum Monographs and the Harvard Semitic Museum Studies are among the major activities...