ERIC M. MEYERS has a reply on the Bible and Interpretation website to Hershel Shanks's latest on the James Ossuary controversy - evidently in the current issue of BAR, which I haven't seen yet. If you have, this may interest you:

Setting the Record Straight:
A Short Response to BAR


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� By Eric M. Meyers
Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor
Director of the Graduate Program in Religion
Duke University
May 2004

��� I would like to set the record straight on several issues raised in a recent article entitled, "Lying Scholars? Ossuary Update" in Biblical Archeology Review, Vol. 30, Issue 3.

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