Biblical Archaeology Review

Another may have been the Phoenician (Punic) city of Monte Sirai in Sardinia, also claimed to have been founded in the sixth century B.C.E., the city plan of which is almost identical to that at Dor.

A cella is the principal enclosed structure within an ancient temple. Typically it was a three-sided room open towards the temple’s entrance, with four columns placed in front of the open side.

Hebrew and Greek letters have numerical values; thus the numbering of the beast (666) is the sum of the letters of his name.

Translations by Varda Nowitz.

See Alan Segal’s review in BAR, “A First Look at Key Scrolls,” BAR 19:01. Also see “Blood on the Floor at the New York Dead Sea Scroll Conference,” BAR 19:02.

Robert H. Eisenman and James Robinson, ed., A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991).

Jeffrey A. Blakely and Lawrence F. Toombs, The Tell el-Hesi Field Manual (Baltimore: ASOR, 1980); Toombs, Tell el-Hesi: Modern Military Trenching and Muslim Cemetery in Field I Strata I–II (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1985); and W. J. Bennett, Jr., and Blakely, Tell el-Hesi: The Persian Period (Stratum V) (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1989).

A clasp similar to a safety pin, used to fasten garments.

Begun by the university of Leiden in 1959, the expedition continues as a joint project among that institution, the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and Yarmouk university.

See André Lemaire, “Fragments from the Book of Balaam Found at Deir Alla,” BAR 11:05.