Biblical Archaeology Review

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) are the religiously neutral terms used by scholars, corresponding to B.C. and A.D.

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

A genizah (geh-NEE-zuh) is a synagogue repository for worn-out copies of sacred writings.

MMT is the siglum for a secret text that chief scroll editor John Strugnell has been talking about at scholarly conferences for five years. He still has not released the text, however. It is scheduled for publication soon.

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) is the religiously neutral term used by scholars, corresponding to B.C.

BAR suggested that all scholars be given access to the unpublished scrolls. See “Release the Dead Sea Scrolls to Other Scholars,” BAR 15:05.—Ed.

This follows from one of the articles cited, Bruce Trigger, “Nubian, Negro, Black, Nilotic,” in Africa in Antiquity, The Arts of Nubia and the Sudan, 2 vols., ed. Sylvia Hochfield and Elizabeth Riefstahl (New York Brooklyn Museum, 1978), vol. I, pp. 27–35 esp. 27–28.

See Baruch Margalit, “Why King Mesha of Moab Sacrificed His Oldest Son,” BAR 12:06.

We were assisted by archaeologists and volunteers from the University of Haifa, Denmark, Italy and the United States (Univ. of Mass. at Amherst and the Program of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A & M). Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shay of Philadelphia and Prof. Daniel Hillel made major donations.