Queries & Comments

To Err is Human

Mispelingss

I greatly enjoyed your 40th anniversary issue (BAR 41:02). It has several quizzes to which you may wish to add a quiz identifying your printing errors:

Biblical archaeology under “SEIGE” (caption, p. 39). It better be.

“AMATUER” archaeologists (caption, p. 58). Rather amateurish.

A Daughter, Not a Son

The magnificent Anastasis fresco in the Chora Church/Museum is framed with the raising of Jairus’s Daughter on one side and that of the Nain Widow’s Son on the other. The two got mixed up, however, in BAR (in James C. VanderKam, “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament,” BAR 41:02, p. 52). The BAR illustration pictures not the Nain Widow’s Son, as you state in the caption, but Jairus’s Daughter.

With best wishes,