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New Light on the Pharisees

Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls
By Lawrence H. Schiffman
030 The texts from Qumran lead us to a new understanding of the history of Judaism in the Second Temple period. Initial research on the scrolls naturally concentrated on the Dead Sea Scroll sect. But the full corpus will teach us a tremendous...
Bible Review, June 1992

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By James H. CharlesworthJames C. VanderKam
060 35 Scrolls Still in Private Hands By James H. Charlesworth In 1954, at the age of 14, I was living with my family in Delray Beach, Florida. I would spend summers exploring the Everglades in my kayak, wondering wide-eyed at the alligators and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2007

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By Geza VermesLawrence H. Schiffman
054 The Quote Heard ’Round the World It was 1948—I was studying theology and the Bible in Louvain (Belgium) at a college run by French-speaking Jesuits—when I first read in the press about a sensational Hebrew manuscript discovery dating to the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007

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

A Short History of the Dead Sea Scrolls and What They Tell Us

By Lawrence H. Schiffman
045 I want to say here and now how grateful I am to the original team of Dead Sea Scroll scholars who failed to publish the bulk of the scrolls for nearly 40 years and refused to let other scholars see them in the meantime. But for them, I...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2015

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

Reinterpreting John

How the Dead Sea Scrolls have revolutionized our understanding of the Gospel of John
By James H. Charlesworth
019 Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, many scholars considered the Fourth Gospel—the Gospel According to John—to be a mid-to-late-second-century composition inspired by Greek philosophy. Today, 45 years later, a growing scholarly...
Bible Review, February 1993

The Significance of the Scrolls

The second generation of scholars—or is it the third?—offers a new perspective on the texts from the Qumran caves
By Lawrence H. Schiffman
019 Dead Sea Scroll scholarship is undergoing a virtual revolution. New ideas and perspectives are percolating among the small group of scholars who dedicate themselves to primary research on the content of the scrolls. Recent publications focus...
Bible Review, October 1990

“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

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

Professors James H. Charlesworth and Sidnie White Crawford

In this lively interview, BAR editor Hershel Shanks engages James Charlesworth and Sidnie White Crawford in a conversation about John Strugnell, a linguistics genius and editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project who was ousted as the project’s head in 1990 (as well as from his post at Harvard University) following alleged anti-Semitic remarks. Charlesworth and Crawford share personal accounts of their work with Strugnell and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This in-depth discussion also explores the role of the scrolls in relation to the study of early Christianity.

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

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

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