Queries & Comments

Put Up or Shut Up

I will not renew my subscription because there is too much fiction in what is supposed to be a scientific journal. You have referred in your promotional material to:

“A burial box that once held the bones of the high priest Caiaphas, who presided at the trial of Jesus.”

“A prototype of the golden calf the Israelites fashioned at the foot of Mt. Sinai at the very moment Moses was receiving the Tablets of the Law.”

“Abram, as he was then known (before his name was changed to Abraham), [who] started in Ur.”

These statements are made as though the events actually happened. Prove it! The word “alleged” should precede each of them.

Wiesel and Cross Interview

Better Than Petty

I loved the interview with Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross (“Contrasting Insights of Biblical Giants,” July/August 2004). How about more interviews like that, rather than the petty stuff that BAR has gotten to love.