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The Allegro Qumran Collection on Microfiche

Edited by George J. Brooke, in collaboration with Helen K. Bond (Leiden, the Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1996), $642.50

As a member of the original Dead Sea Scroll editorial team, John M. Allegro took hundreds of photographs. Many of them are the very images we think of when we picture the first years of discovery: members of the team examining fragments in the “scrollery” in the Rockefeller Museum, archaeologists working with Bedouin in the caves, Kando (the antiquities dealer who sold some of the scrolls to Yigael Yadin) smiling shyly at us from the doorway of his shop in Jerusalem. But most of Allegro’s photographs have never been published. The Allegro Qumran Collection, a supplement to The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche, has now been released by E.J. Brill. It includes nearly 1,500 black-and-white photographs (on 35 sheets of microfiche) taken by Allegro between 1955 and 1962. Subjects covered include the archaeology of Qumran, the editorial team and the scrolls themselves. The accompanying catalogue briefly identifies each photo and describes the archive and its origins. To order the collection or to obtain more information, call 1–800-962–4406, ext. 11, or fax 518–758-1959.