Biblical Archaeology Review

The Temple Scroll (Israel Exploration Society: Jerusalem, 1983) 3 vols. Reviewed by Jacob Milgrom, Books in Brief, BAR 10:05.

But see the article in BARlines, “Israeli Archaeologists Support Sale of Artifacts”; see also the letter from reader James E. Warren in Queries & Comments.

John Allegro, The Dead Sea Scrolls, a Reappraisal (Pelican Books, 1952), p. 45.

Paul W. Lapp, “Bedouin Find Papyri Three Centuries Older Than Dead Sea Scrolls,” BAR 04:01, and Frank Moore Cross, “The Historical Importance of the Samaria Papyri,” BAR 04:01.

Katie Leishman, “The Future of the Past,” The Atlantic, January 1985, pp. 21–27.

“Earliest Aramaic Inscription Uncovered in Syria,” BAR 07:04.

Careful readers will note that Champollion identified some hieroglyphic signs for vowels. In spelling personal names, late Egyptian scribes often indicated vowels by using certain consonant signs for that purpose (as in the examples here), much as Hebrew had done earlier.

In addition, certain rudimentary vowels, called matres lectiones, were introduced in Hebrew which help somewhat in indicating pronunciation.

Note that Courville anticipated Anati in placing the Exodus at the end of the Early Bronze Age. Anati, however, accepts the G.A.D. for the end of the Early Bronze Age, so he must move the Exodus back to the third millennium B.C.