Just to give thanks

To Hershel Shanks.

I love reading BAR,

Because it’s wunderbar!

Amos Frumkin has vividly and conclusively shown how the very conspicuous (20 m high) pillar near the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea may have been related to the Biblical tradition of Lot’s wife in people’s imagination (“How Lot’s Wife Became a Pillar of Salt,” BAR 35:03).