Biblical Archaeology Review

John Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades (Jerusalem: Ariel Publishing, 1977), p. 15.

Between Kfar Samir and Kibbutz Hahotrim.

These excavations have been led by Ehud Galili and Nisim Shmueli of Haifa University and Shelley Wachsman and Kurt Raveh of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums.

Karstic is the adjective form of karst, “an area of limestone formations, characterized by sinks, ravines and underground streams.”

“Estimating the Population of Ancient Jerusalem,” BAR 04:02.

The Hebrew word “ophel” is translated as “hill” (Revised Standard Version) and “citadel” (King James and New Jewish Publication Society versions).

QEDEM 19 (1984) Excavations at the City of David I by Yigal Shiloh. This book may be ordered from BAS Bookstore.

At the very least, Israel, through a committee of its own, could negotiate with the scholars who have unpublished scroll materials to work out an agreeable time schedule for publication and to negotiate reassignment of materials that cannot be published within, say, the next two or three years.

This would be easy to do. A complete set of photographs of all Dead Sea Scroll materials except the Temple Scroll, is kept in a climatized vault at the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, Claremont, California, entrusted to the Center by the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums for safekeeping, on condition that no unauthorized person may see any of these materials. A simple direction to the Center to allow it to give all scholars access to the photographs would go a long way toward solving the problem.