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Hershel Shanks Biography

Hershel Shanks (born March 8, 1930, in Sharon, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is the American founder of the Biblical Archaeology Society and the Editor Emeritus of the Biblical Archaeology Review. He has written and edited numerous works on Biblical archaeology including the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Pentateuch.

Passion, Unique, Pages, Page, Cross

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

Biblical, Book, Epic, Influential, Myth, Studies

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

Father, Hebrew, Ministers, Forced, Seriously

Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.

Done, Historical, Interpretation, Literary, Littles, Work

I know that the Bible has been a central influence in [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] lives - but in a very different way. In truth, you inhabit very different Biblical worlds.

Bible, Biblical, Different, Truth, World, Worlds

For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. I believe that's the third oldest university chair in the country.

Country, Believe, Years, Prestigious, Oldest

I don't think there is any other professional Bible scholar who is more respected and honored [like Frank Moore Cross].

Crosses, Honored, Moore, Respected, Scholar, Thinking

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

Bible, Deal, Deals, Literature, Work

We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds.

Backgrounds, Cross, Crosses, Differ, Frank, Moore

Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

Civilized, Defined, Holocaust, Moral, World, Years

The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is not something, however, that I have taught or written about. This has been, if you wish, a private aspect.

Beliefs, Bible, Book, Private, Religious, Wish

I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration. Wherever you open it, any page, you know that you are in the presence of something that exists nowhere else.

Divine, Exists, Holiness, Inspiration, Nowhere, Pages

As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

Bible, Editors, Hype, Numbers, Serve, Wiesel

We have a text before us, an ancient text, a living text, and we try to enter it, not only to decipher it, but to penetrate it, to become part of it, similar to the way every student becomes part of a teacher's texture. That's how I see our [with Frank Moore Cross] two differing approaches.

Living, Moore, Part, Teacher, Trying, Two