by hadassah | Aug 2, 2015 | Background
Coin of Antiochos IV Epiphanes Courtesy of Classical Numismatic Group The reverse shows Zeus(King of the Gods) enthroned carrying the Goddess Nike(Victory). See also: Silver Tetradrachm of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 164 BCE What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and...
by hadassah | Jul 27, 2015 | Discovery and Acquisition
Discovery and Acquisition, 1947–1956, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994. The Dead Sea Scrolls were not discovered all at once in 1947. We have several accounts from antiquity and the Middle...
by hadassah | Jul 5, 2015 | Discovery and Acquisition
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Wrote Them, Frank Moore Cross, Biblical Archaeology Review (3:1), Mar 1977. 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....
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2009 | Excavation, Maccabean Period
The Enigma of Qumran, Hershel Shanks, Biblical Archaeology Review (24:01), Jan/Feb 1998. Four archaeologists assess the site If you want to understand how archaeologists think, how they reason, how they work, how they interpret finds—and why they sometimes...
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2009 | Excavation
Excavation The Site Virtually all of the Dead Sea Scrolls research points to a connection between the ruins at Qumran and the scrolls found in the caves. This has been established by the correspondence between the dating of the scrolls and the dating of the...
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2009 | Excavation
What Was Qumran? Not a Country Villa, Jodi Magness, Biblical Archaeology Review (22:06), Nov/Dec 1996. Everyone wants to know who lived at Qumran, the settlement adjacent to the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. And sometimes it seems that everyone...
