by hadassah | Jan 29, 2009 | Maccabean Period
Tapping the Mother Lode: Qumran Cave 4, Hershel Shanks, Biblical Archaeology Review (19:05), Sep/Oct 1993. Qumran Cave 4: Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, Volume 9) Patrick W. Skehan, Eugene Ulrich and Judith E....
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2009 | Maccabean Period
In a letter to the editor in Queries & Comments, BAR 18-06, Jerusalem guide Walter Zanger questions whether the installations found in the Jewish Quarter excavations directed by the late Nahman Avigad were really mikva’ot (ritual purification baths, singular...
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2009 | Maccabean Period
Beatitudes Found Among Dead Sea Scrolls, Benedict T. Viviano, Biblical Archaeology Review (18:6) Nov/Dec 1992. A recently published fragment among the Dead Sea Scrolls contains beatitudes with some striking similarities to the beatitudes in the Sermon on the...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Maccabean Period
Damascus Document, 1st century BCE The Damascus Document circulated widely in the Qumran community, as evidenced by the number of fragments of the text found in caves 4, 5 and 6. The contents of these Qumran fragments are also found in two medieval manuscripts...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Maccabean Period
Books in Brief: The Damascus Document Reconsidered, Hershel Shanks, Biblical Archaeology Review (18:4) Jul/Aug 1992. The Damascus Document Reconsidered Magen Broshi, editor (Jerusalem- Israel Exploration Society and Shrine of the Book, 1992) 83 pp., $20.00 This...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Maccabean Period, Publication and Preservation
Carbon-14 Tests Substantiate Scroll Dates, Hershel Shanks, Biblical Archaeology Review (17:06), Nov/Dec 1991. Carbon-14 (C-14) tests on samples of the Dead Sea Scrolls have substantially confirmed the previous date of the scrolls based on paleography (the shape...
