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Another View: Do Josephus’s Writings Support the “Essene Hypothesis”?
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2009
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
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
More on the Pierced Messiah Text from Eisenman and Vermes
Few of the recently published Dead Sea Scrolls have generated as much controversy as payment 4Q285, popularly known as the Pierced Messiah text. The debate over its meaning has raged in the pages of this magazine. Now two of the principal...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1993
Long-Secret Plates from the Unpublished Corpus
The Biblical Archaeology Society’s publication of transcripts of Dead Sea Scrolls (“BAS Publishes Secret Dead Sea Scrolls,” BAR 17:05) has been almost universally applauded, with one prominent exception—the editors who still control access to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1991
Whose Bones
New Qumran Excavations, New Debates
Under the headline, “Digging for the Baptist,” the August 12, 2002 issue of Time magazine asked its readers: “Have...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2003
The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life
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
A Short History of the Dead Sea Scrolls and What They Tell Us
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
Was Yahweh Worshiped as the Sun?
Israel’s God was abstract, but he may also have had a consort
Did Yahweh,a the Israelite God, have a consort? Like many other scholars, I believe that a substantial number of Israelites thought so. Unlike most others scholars, however, I believe that many of these same Israelites considered the sun a...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1994
Books in Brief
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 1986
ReViews
The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2003
An update to Vol. 2, pp. 698–804.
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land
2008