You are hereHomeBARNovember/December 1996Backward Glance: An Archaeologist Before His Time See Reisner, Field Diary of the Samaria Excavations 1910 (unpublished), quoted in Ivan T. Kaufman, The Samaria Ostraca: An Early Witness to Hebrew Writing, Biblical Archaeologist 45:4 (1982), p. 229. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.