Alan D. Crown

Alan D. Crown, emeritus professor of Semitic studies at the University of Sydney (Australia), was a renowned scholar of Samaritan studies. His work made him one of the foremost experts on the Abisha Scroll, a copy of the Samaritan Pentateuch that was supposedly penned by Aaron’s great-grandson Abisha, and he received a grant to produce a critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch.

The articles below were hand-selected by Biblical Archaeology Society editors especially for members of the BAS Library.

The Abisha Scroll—3,000 years Old?

Bible Review, Oct 1991
by Alan D. Crown

Was It an Essene Settlement?

BAR, Sep/Oct 1994
by Alan D. Crown and Lena Cansdale