Biblical Archaeology Review

See “Computer-Generated Dead Sea Scrolls Texts 98% Accurate,” BAR 18:01.

See “BAS Publishes Dead Sea Scrolls,” BAR 17:05.

See Ann Killebrew and Steven Fine, “Qatzrin—Reconstructing Village Life in Talmudic Times,” BAR 17:03.

The publication of UNESCO’s Fifth Regional Seminar: The Museum as a Cultural Center in the Development of a Community (Paris, 1963) marked the “official” transition of the museum’s role in society from one of cultural storehouse to one of public education. See also H.T. Rowell, “A Home for the Muses,” Archaeology (1966), pp. 76–83.

See for example Fake? The Art of Deception, ed. M. Jones (British Museum Publications, 1990), and the amusing but cautionary account of fraud in the Mildenberg animal figurine collection by O.W. Muscarella, “On Publishing Unexcavated Artifacts,” Journal of Field Archaeology 11 (1984), pp. 61–66.

For a wider ranging explanation of the relation between site loving and the antiquities trade in Israel, see David Ilan, Uzi Dahari and Gideon Avni, “The Rampant Rape of Israel’s Archaeological Sites,” BAR 15:02.

C.E. (Common Era), used by this author, is the alternate designation corresponding to A.D. often used in scholarly literature.

The Masoretes were a group of scholars who tried to safeguard the traditional reading and transmission of the Hebrew scriptures by introducing the vowel system of spelling and other innovations.

See Lawrence H. Schiffman, “The Significance of the Scrolls,” BR 06:05.

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