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The Life of the Dead Sea
Millions of years ago, seismic forces where two tectonic plates come together formed the Great Rift Valley. Millions of years later, the Dead Sea was created in that valley—the lowest point on earth. Thus begins the story of the life of the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2008
Dead Sea Scrolls Spotlight
The Temple Scroll
The Temple Scroll is the longest Dead Sea Scroll (over 28 feet, preserved almost to its entire length) and one of the most important. It was excavated by Bedouin in Cave 11 in 1956 (since then no more scrolls have been discovered at Qumran). The Dead Sea Scrolls can be divided into three main...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007
The Rise and Fall of the Dead Sea
Genesis 14, one of the most puzzling episodes in the Bible, tells of a strange and unlikely war: Five petty kings, including the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, rebel against an overlord king, Chedorlaomer, and his three allies. The battlefield...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 2001
Death at the Dead Sea
If I were to ask you to guess where the largest group of cemeteries in the ancient world—with tens of thousands of graves—was located, where would you say? Outside some thriving ancient metropolis? In some verdant landscape redolent of Eden?...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2012
Preserve the Dead Sea Scrolls
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
The People of The Dead Sea Scrolls
Essenes or Sadducees?
Adjacent to the 11 caves on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were found are the remains of an ancient settlement overlooking the Wadi Qumran. It is almost certain that the people who lived in this...
Bible Review, April 1991
Jordan’s New Dead Sea Museum
Visitors to Jordan should not miss driving the winding road from Amman down to the stunning new Dead Sea museum. The view from the Zara cliff, overlooking the sea toward Israel’s Judean desert, is itself reason enough for the trip. But there...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2008
Dead Sea Scroll Research Burgeoning
Dead Sea Scroll research is growing by leaps and bounds. Two new organizations have recently been formed—in addition to BAS’s own Dead Sea Scrolls Research Council (formerly the Institute for Dead Sea Scroll Studies)—to support and undertake...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1992
BAS Publishes Dead Sea Scrolls
Available to anyone
The monopoly held by the small coterie of scholars who control the still-secret Dead Sea Scrolls is slowly being broken. The Biblical Archaeology Society, publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review and Bible Review, is publishing A...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 1991
60 Years with the Dead Sea Scrolls
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