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Almost 40 years after the end of the excavation of the settlement at Qumran, adjacent to where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, the first volume of a projected multi-volume “final” report appeared. Unfortunately this long delay is not at all rare in Palestinian archaeology. The first volume of the “final” report consisted of the field notes of the excavation, in French, by Roland de Vaux, and an album of photographs.1 This was nevertheless a most welcome contribution to the study of a site that produced the most important finds ever discovered in the Holy Land and one of […]

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Endnotes

F.M. Cross, “The Development of the Jewish Scripts,” in The Bible and Ancient Near East, ed. by G.E. Wright (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961).

P.R.S. Moorey,

Naomi Shepherd, The Zealous Intruders (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987).

For an overview of the survey, see Philip Mayerson, “Some Observations on the Negev Archaeological Survey,” Israel Exploration Journal 46 (1996), pp. 100–107.