Milestones: Vendyl Jones (1930–2010)

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Vendyl Jones, a Baptist minister turned amateur archaeologist who spent a career in Israel searching for the Ark of the Covenant, passed away in December. He was 80 years old.

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Footnotes

A picture of the oil-filled juglet was published in Joseph Patrich, “Hideouts in the Judean Wilderness,” BAR 15:05.