Biblical Archaeology Review

The original members of the committee were Roland de Vaux, who served as chairman until his death in 1971, Frank Moore Cross, John Strugnell, Patrick Skehan, Jean Starcky, Claus Hunzinger, John Allegro and J. T. Milik. The international committee thus included scholars from the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany and Poland. Aside from the committee, Maurice Baillet of Erance was assigned Cave 11 materials.

The conference was funded by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.

See “Part of Ten Lost Tribes Located,” BAR 01:03.

A photograph of this motif appeals in “Did Yahweh Have a Consort?” BAR 05:02, by Zeev Meshel.

Ancient Ivories in the Middle East (QEDEM Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vol. 14 Jerusalem, 1982). (Available from BAS Discount Books.)

The word is shaddayin, the plural of the related Hebrew word shadday, which is usually translated “Almighty” as in El-Shadday, “God Almighty.” The philological evidence seems to indicate that shadday originally meant “the one of the mountains”; that is, a mountain god. The plural used at Deir ‘Alla may refer to a divine council where major decisions were made.

André Lemaire, “L’inscription de Balaam provenant de Deir ‘Alla: aspects épigraphiques,” Proceedings of the International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, April 1–10, 1984.

This method of dealing with large numbers in the Old Testament is treated by David Alexander and Pat Alexander, eds., Eerdmans Handbook to the Bible (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1973), p 191–192.

The work of such scholars as Herman Kees, Ancient Egypt, a Cultural Topography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961) and Jac. Janssen, Commodity Prices from the Ramesside Period (Leiden: Brill, 1975) stands out as notable exceptions.

“The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll,” BAR 10:05.