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The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By Frank Moore CrossEmanuel TovSidnie White CrawfordMartin Abegg, Jr.
038 In this issue four prominent scholars tell BAR readers how the scrolls changed their lives. Harvard’s Frank Cross is the doyen of Dead Sea Scroll scholars; his views come in an interview with BAR editor Hershel Shanks. In the pages that...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2007

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Wrote Them

By Frank Moore Cross
After a quarter century of discovery and publication, the study of the manuscripts from the desert of Judah has entered a new, more mature phase. True, the heat and noise of the early controversies have not wholly dissipated. One occasionally hears the agonized cry of a scholar pinned beneath a collapsed theory. And in the popular press, no doubt, the so-called battle of the scrolls will continue to be fought with mercenaries for some time to come. However, the initial period of confusion is past. From the burgeoning field of scroll research and the new disciplines it has created, certain coherent patterns of fact and meaning have emerged.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March 1977

Hershel’s Crusade, No. 1: He Who Freed the Dead Sea Scrolls

By Martin Abegg, Jr.
In 1991, with the support of Hershel Shanks and BAS, Martin Abegg, Jr., contemplated committing “academic suicide”—publishing reconstructions of the Dead Sea Scrolls without the permission of the sluggish and secretive publication team. Abegg details how, in fact, Hershel’s impact resonates far beyond that remarkable moment.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April May/June 2018

The Missing Link

Does a new inscription establish a connection between Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls?
By Frank Moore CrossEsther Eshel
048 049 Not a single fragment of a Dead Sea Scroll has been discovered among the ruins of Qumran, the ancient settlement adjacent to the caves where the scrolls were found. Although many...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1998

“Will Marty Abegg Ever Find a Job?”

Scroll Scholar Thrives Despite Unauthorized Publication
By Martin Abegg, Jr.Michael PhelpsHershel Shanks
036 The monopoly over access to the Dead Sea Scrolls was broken in 1991. One of the key events in that breakup was the publication of Dead Sea Scroll texts that had been reconstructed by computer from a concordance. We will here detail this...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2003

II: Original Biblical Text Reconstructed from Newly Found Fragments

Scrolls provide a fresh understanding of apocalyptic elements in late biblical religion
By Frank Moore Cross
026027 In the last issue of Bible Review, Professor Cross presented a description, based on his study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, of how the text of the Hebrew Bible developed (“The Text...
Bible Review, Fall 1985

Insight

Why Is Esther Missing from Qumran?
By Martin Abegg, Jr.Eugene UlrichPeter W. Flint
Bible Review, August 1999

Power to the Powerless—A Long-Lost Song of Miriam

By George J. Brooke
062 According to the Book of Exodus, after the miracle at the Red Sea—the Israelites have passed through dry-shod and the Egyptians have drowned—Moses and the Israelites sing a victory hymn (Exodus 15:1–19). Immediately following the Song of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1994

Sacred Sex, Sacrifice and Death

Understanding a prophetic poem
By Susan Ackerman
038 Sacred sex, child sacrifice, the cult of the dead—these are the subjects of a powerful, 11-verse poem in Isaiah 57:3–13. Our task will be to understand how the poet makes his points, why he juxtaposes these three seemingly different subjects...
Bible Review, February 1990

I: The Text Behind the Text of the Hebrew Bible

By Frank Moore Cross
012013 012 This is Part I of a two-part article; the second part will appear in the next issue of Bible Review. Part 2 will discuss the...
Bible Review, Summer 1985

Paul, “Works of the Law” and MMT

By Martin Abegg, Jr.
052 The usual translation of Miqsat Ma‘ase Ha-Torah—MMT—obscures its relationship to Paul’s letters. This Dead Sea Scroll and Paul use the very same phrase. On March 15, 1988, as part of my duties as the new graduate research assistant to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1994

Nahman Avigad: In Memoriam

By Frank Moore Cross
046 Nahman Avigad was born in the Galician town of Zawalow (then in Austria, now in the Ukraine), on September 25, 1905, the son of Isak and Perl Reiss. He died at age 86 in Jerusalem on January 28, 1992. His childhood and schooling took place in...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1992

Phoenicians in Brazil?

Distinguished linguist examines controversial inscription supposedly written by ancient voyagers to the New World.
By Frank Moore Cross
036 037 Of the recurring, often bizarre attempts to find ancient Semitic inscriptions in the western hemisphere, the most prominent and frequently cited concerns the so-called Paraiba...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1979

Hershel Shanks Interviews Scholars on the Scrolls

Three video interviews with prominent Dead Sea Scrolls scholars
Weston W. FieldsGeorge J. BrookeJames H. CharlesworthSidnie White CrawfordJoseph A. Fitzmyer

Strata: Milestones: Peter W. Flint (1951–2016)

By Martin Abegg, Jr.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2017

Professors Weston W. Fields and George J. Brooke

This video features Hershel Shanks’s engaging interview with Dead Sea Scrolls experts Weston Fields and George Brooke, who present key findings about the scrolls and the fascinating story behind their study and interpretation. Shanks focuses on British scholar John Marco Allegro, a maverick and self-proclaimed publicist who contended the scrolls could relate to early doctrines of Christianity. Fields and Brooke also discuss the controversial letter written to and published in The Times (of London) by five Dead Sea Scrolls team members disassociating themselves from Allegro and his opinions. Later, they comment on the unique Copper Scroll with its Hebrew “treasure map” listing valuable lost items from the first-century C.E., likely from the Jerusalem Temple. Is the list fact, as Allegro passionately believed, or just a fantasy?

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Strata: Milestones: John C. Trever (1915–2006)

By Martin Abegg, Jr.
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2006

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Reviewed by Susan AckermanAnthony J. SaldariniSidnie White Crawford
Bible Review, June 1999

We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (But Still Have a Ways to Go)

U.S. News’s report on feminist Bible scholarship is good—but it’s too bad it didn’t get the full picture.
By Susan Ackerman
Bible Review, October 1998

Bible Books

Reviewed by Susan AckermanGary A. AndersonAnthony J. Saldarini
Bible Review, April 1988

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