Biblical Archaeology Review

In a letter to the editor published in Queries & Comments, BAR 09:06, Dever reported that a year earlier he and the president of HUC had submitted a proposal to the Israel Department of Antiquities for the consolidation of Gezer, but at the rime of Dever’s letter, no action had yet been taken. Apparently nothing has happened since then.

In a letter to the editor published in Queries & Comments, BAR 09:06, the president of HUC, Alfred Gottschalk, said his institution “does intend to proceed with the preservation of Gezer … [but] we simply do not have the funds to preserve the site.”

See “The Sad Case of Tell Gezer,” BAR 09:04.

See “Dever Plans to Return to Gezer for One More Season of Digging,” BAR 09:04.

The initial director of the project was G. Ernest Wright, who served from 1964 to 1965. Dever headed the excavation team from 1966 to 1971. The last three seasons, beginning in 1972, were led by Joe D. Seger, now of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University.

See “Excavating Anthropoid Coffins in the Gaza Strip,” BAR 02:01, and “What We Know About the Philistines,” BAR 08:04, by Trude Dothan.

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

See “How the Dead Sea Scrolls Were Found,” BAR 01:04, by Harry Thomas Frank.

RCA v. United States, 341 U.S. 412.