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Editor’s Apology

This is a personal apology from the editor of BAR to Avraham Perevolotsky, co-author of an article in the July/August 1985 BAR titled “The Southern Sinai Exodus Route in Ecological Perspective,” BAR 11:04. Dr. Perevolotsky’s first name was incorrectly printed as Aviram instead of Avraham. I subsequently tried to find out how that happened but was unsuccessful.

Dr. Perevolotsky’s co-author, Israel Finkelstein wrote another article for BAR, “Shiloh Yields Some, But Not All, of Its Secrets,” BAR 12:01. I saw this as an opportunity to correct the error we had made in Dr. Perevolotsky’s first name: In describing an article that Dr. Finkelstein previously wrote for BAR we would mention his co-author, Avraham Perevolotsky. That is the way the text of “Inside BAR” was written.

In the final check of the January/February issue, just before it went to press, our careful proofreaders caught what they thought was an error: Perevolotsky’s first name appeared as Avraham, not Aviram. They checked the name against the July/August 1985 issue, confirming what they had thought was an error—and naturally changed Avraham to Aviram.