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Preserve the Dead Sea Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
062 The Dead Sea Scrolls have been liberated. The time has now come to preserve the Dead Sea Scrolls. Whether the scrolls received worse treatment during the 2,000 years they spent in the caves than they have since being taken out of the caves...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1992

60 Years with the Dead Sea Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
030 The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls changed many lives—arguably, including mine (as editor of BAR). As the cornerstone of our observance of the 60th anniversary of the scrolls’ discovery, eight leading Dead Sea Scroll scholars have agreed...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2007

Is the Vatican Suppressing the Dead Sea Scrolls?

By Hershel Shanks
066 A book that will soon be available in the United States was recently published in England under the title The Dead Sea Scroll Deception by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh (Jonathan Cape, 1991).1 The book’s thesis is that the Vatican...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1991

Team Scholars Working Hard on Dead Sea Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
096 According to a report issued by the Israel Antiquities Authority, five scholars are now engaged full time in preparing Dead Sea Scrolls for publication. Approximately 30 others are spending part time on the task. “A constant effort is being...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1991

Leading Dead Sea Scroll Scholar Denounces Delay

By Hershel Shanks
022 One of the world’s preeminent Dead Sea Scroll authorities, who at one time had full access to all the fragments, including those still unpublished, has roundly condemned the continuing delay in releasing the full texts. Speaking at a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1990

At Least Publish the Dead Sea Scrolls Timetable!

By Hershel Shanks
056 A new timetable for the publication of still-secret Dead Sea Scroll fragments is being negotiated between Israel’s Department of Antiquities and the scholar-editors to whom publication was assigned 35 years ago. Fragments of approximately 400...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1989

New Hope for the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
055 At long last, significant progress is being made to assure publication of the substantial batch of unpublished Dead Sea Scroll texts.a And we may soon learn just how substantial this batch is; finally, after more than three decades, a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1989

Qumran—The Pottery Factory

Dead Sea Scrolls Not Related to Settlement, Says Excavator
By Hershel Shanks
026 Qumran, that desolate, supposedly monastery-like site with its ritual baths and communal dining room overlooking the Dead Sea, had nothing to do with the Dead Sea Scrolls found in nearby caves, according to a just-released study. Your vision...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2006

The Honor Due Dead Sea Scroll Scholar Jozef Milik

By Hershel Shanks
024 It is time to honor Jozef Milik. A former Polish priest now living in Paris, Milik is an original member of the small Dead Sea Scroll publication team designated in the early 1950s. Called by Time magazine “the fastest man with a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1995

Dead Sea Scroll Variation on “Show and Tell”—It’s Called “Tell, But No Show”

By Hershel Shanks
018 You’re not going to believe this! Next summer, at the Biblical Archaeology Congress in Jerusalem, Joseph Baumgarten, newly assigned to edit and publish the coveted Damascus Documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls, will, after more than 35 years,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1990

What Should Be Done About the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls?

By Hershel Shanks
018 BAR’s article on the Dead Sea Scrolls scandal in the July/August issue (“Dead Sea Scrolls Scandal—Israel’s Department of Antiquities Joins Conspiracy to Keep Scrolls Secret,” BAR 15:04) focused worldwide attention on the fact that, more than...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1989

Dead Sea Scrolls Scandal—Israel’s Department of Antiquities Joins Conspiracy to Keep Scrolls Secret

By Hershel Shanks
018 They will never do it. They will never do it because they cannot do it. They have failed—utterly and completely. The time for equivocation, explanation and apology has passed. It is now time to face the situation squarely and unflinchingly:...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1989

The Petra Scrolls

Publication of papyri a legal obligation
By Hershel Shanks
064 In December 1993, when Pierre Bikai, director of the the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, and his team discovered a cache of burnt papyrus scrolls in a Byzantine church in Petra, he wanted to avoid the kind of...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1997

Cross and Milik Fail to Meet Deadline in New “Suggested Timetable” for Dead Sea Scroll Completion

By Hershel Shanks
047 In January 1989, the Israel Department of Antiquities released a “Suggested Timetable” for publication of all still-secret Dead Sea Scrolls. The “Suggested Timetable” called for completion of 21 categories of texts between 1989 and 1996. The...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1990

Jerusalem Rolls Out Red Carpet for Biblical Archaeology Congress

Serious issues raised concerning nature of Biblical archaeology as well as publication of Dead Sea Scrolls
By Hershel Shanks
012 For a week in April, all Jerusalem was aglitter with archaeology. The occasion was the International Congress on Biblical Archaeology marking the 70th anniversary of the Israel Exploration Society. At the opening session, the Acting President...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1984

Golden Anniversary of the Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
063 There, on a moonlit night beside the ruins of Qumran, was the voice of Yigael Yadin, Israel’s most illustrious archaeologist, dead these 13 years, reading in the original language from a letter by Shimon bar Kosiba, better known as Bar-Kokhba...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1997

Isaiah Among the Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
061 In 2011, more than 60 years after the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by the Bedouin in what became known as Qumran Cave 1, a splendid new edition of the Great Isaiah Scroll—1QIsaa, in more technical language—has been published...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2011

Scrolls, Scripts and Stelae

A Norwegian collector shows BAR his rare inscriptions
By Hershel Shanks
025 If you have a Dead Sea Scroll for sale, you should get in touch with Martin Schøyen (pronounced Skoo-yen) in Oslo. He is a prime prospect. He already owns several Dead Sea Scroll fragments—making him one of the few individuals in the world (I...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2002

Silence, Anti-Semitism and the Scrolls

By Hershel Shanks
054 Did you ever wonder what the dean of Harvard Divinity School does with his time? He attends meetings—all day—at least when a senior member of his faculty gives a virulently anti-Semitic interview to the press. On October 28, 1990, chief Dead...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1991

Qimron Wins Lawsuit

Paying the price for freeing the scrolls
By Hershel Shanks
065 The Jerusalem court has spoken: Elisha Qimron of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev owns the copyright on the reconstructed text of MMT, one of the most important, and still unpublished, Dead Sea Scrolls. Now the scholarly community will have...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1993

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