Washington lawyer became a publisher and a force in biblical archaeology

BY HARRISON SMITH harrison.smith@washpost.com
OBITUARIES

When Hershel Shanks moved his family to Israel in 1972, he thought he would finally be able to write his novel. He was on sabbatical from his legal practice after a year in which he had argued a U.S. Supreme Court case and succeeded in uniting the...

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