Biblical Archaeology Review

The Mishnah is the body of Jewish oral law—specifically, the collection of oral laws compiled in the second century A.D. by Rabbi Judah the Prince.

For photographs of all five of these inkwells see “Further Qumran Archaeology Publications in Progress,” Biblical Archaeologist 54 (1991), pp. 110–111.

Hershel Shanks,“Blood on the Floor at New York Dead Sea Scroll Conference,” BAR 19:02.

The other lawyers are Diane Siegel Danoff, Jerome A. Hoffman and Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Philadelphia firm of Dechert Price and Rhoads; Abbe David Lowell and William Maxwell Hathaway, of the Washington D.C. firm of Brand & Lowell and Wayne M. Barsky and Elliot Brown, who, like Nimmer, serve at the Los Angeles firm of Irell & Manella.

See “Qimron Wins Lawsuit—Paying the Price for Freeing the Scrolls,” BAR 19:04.

See Raphael Levy, “First Dead Sea Scroll Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries,” BAR 08:05.

Since ancient times, Jews have burned worn out or defective sacred manuscripts because they considered them too holy to destroy. A genizah is a synagogue repository for these manuscripts, serving as a temporary storage place until they can be buried in consecrated ground.

See Zvi Greenhut, “Burial Cave of the Caiaphas Family,” BAR 18:05 and Ronny Reich, “Caiaphas Name Inscribed on Bone Boxes,” BAR 18:05.

The joint annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion.