Hershel Shanks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hershel Shanks

American archaeologist

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1930

Place of Birth: Sharon, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: lawyer, journalist, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Hershel Shanks (born March 8, 1930 in Sharon, Pennsylvania, United States) 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. For more than forty years, Shanks has communicated the world of biblical archaeology to general readers by magazines, books, and conferences.
Shanks is "probably the world's most influential amateur Biblical archaeologist," according to The New York Times book critic Richard Bernstein.In a famous legal case before the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993, Shanks and others were successfully sued by leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Elisha Qimron for breach of copyright when Shanks, without permission, published material written by Qimron in A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In 2000, Shanks had his appeal dismissed against the earlier decision.Shanks was the editor of Moment Magazine for 15 years from 1987.Shanks's television appearances include Who Wrote the Bible? (1996), The Naked Archaeologist (2005), and Mysteries of the Bible.He used the pseudonym "Adam Mikaya" for a few articles published in the Biblical Archaeology Review.