April 20, 2001
New Spat Flares Up Over 'Black Athena'
LETTER RIP: The latest spat between two scholars engaged in a long-standing debate has moved to the pages of the Times Literary Supplement. Or at least it has for one of them, since the other says the newspaper hasn't yet allowed him to respond.
Martin Bernal, the author of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Rutgers University Press, 1987), is miffed that the T.L.S. refused to print his letter reacting to an essay by Mary Lefkowitz that it published, "A
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