BAS Publication Awards

The biennial Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Awards recognize the best new books on archaeology and the Bible. Made possible by a generous gift from the Leopold and Clara M. Fellner Charitable Foundation, through its trustee, Frederick L. Simmons, the 1999 awards are for books published in 1997 and 1998.

Best Book Relating to the Old Testament

Judges

Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., Johns Hopkins University
James C. VanderKam, University of Notre Dame

Biblical Figures Outside the Bible

Michael E. Stone and Theodore A. Bergren, Editors (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, 1998) 432 pp., $35.00 (hardcover)

The Text of Genesis I–II: Textual Studies and Critical Edition