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Footnotes

1.

C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before the Common Era), used by this author, are the alternate designations corresponding to A.D. and B.C. often used in scholarly literature.

2.

Babata was a Jewish woman from a village on the shore of the Dead Sea who fled to the cave with her family’s legal documents during the Second Jewish Revolt. See Joseph A. Fitzmyer’s review of The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters: Greek Papyri, edited by Naphtali Lewis, in Books in Brief, BAR 16:03.

3.

See Dan Gill’s review of Amos Nur’s video, “Earthquakes in the Holy Land,” Books in Brief, BAR 17:05.

4.

See P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., “The Mysterious Copper Scroll Clues to Hidden Temple Treasure?” Bible Review, August 1992.

Endnotes

1.

Yigael Yadin, Bar-Kokhba (New York Random House, 1971), p. 114.

2.

Yadin, “Expedition D—The cave of the Letters,” Israel Exploration Journal 12 (1962), pp. 227–229.

3.

Yadin, “Expedition D,” p. 228.

4.

Yadin, “Expedition D,” p. 230.

5.

Yadin, “Expedition D,” p. 231.

6.

Yadin, “Expedition D,” p 231.

7.

Yohanan Aharoni and Beno Rothenberg, In the Footsteps of Kings and Rebels (Ramat-Gan, Israel Massada 1960), pp. 130–132 (in Hebrew). In Aharoni’s report he indicates that it was found in Chamber c. Because of this discrepancy I have tried to consult the original handwritten diary that Aharoni kept of the expedition, but have not yet been able to do so. If Aharoni’s field notes state that the find was in chamber c, I will accept this correction.

8.

Josephus, The Jewish War 2.8, p. 606.

9.

Aharoni, “The caves of Nahal Hever,” Atiqot 3 (1961), pp 153–155.

10.

Aharoni, “The caves of Nahal Hever,” pp. 153–155, 161.

11.

Yigael Yadin, Finds from the Bar-Kokhba Period in The Cave of Letters (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1963), p 17 (in Hebrew).

12.

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 15.5, 2; The Jewish War 1.15, 3.

13.

“Judean Desert-Caves Archaeology Survey in 1960,” Yediot (Bulietin of Israel Exploration Society) 25 A-B (1961) (in Hebrew).

14.

“Judean Desert-Caves,” p. 36.

15.

Pesach Bar-Adon, “Excavations in the Judean Desert,” Atiqot 9, Hebrew Series (1989).