Biblical Archaeology Review

When trying to locate a press willing to publish the scrolls, G. Lankester Harding wrote that he was thinking in terms of “altogether, perhaps, five volumes.” The letter is archived in Folder 1118 of the Palestine Archaeological Museum.

F. M. Cross, D. W. Parry, R. Saley, E. Ulrich, Qumran Cave 4.XII: 1-2 Samuel (DJD XVII; Oxford: Clarendon, 2005).

There is now textual evidence from Papias, the second-century Christian writer, to support the view that John Zebedee met an early demise. Papias fragment 10.17 seems clearly to affirm that John died early as a martyr, as did his brother. See Ben Witherington, What Have They Done With Jesus? (Harper Collins, 2006), p. 158 and notes.

Frank Moore Cross and Lawrence E. Stager, “Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions Found in Ashkelon,” Israel Exploration Journal, Vol. 56, No. 2 (2006; actually published: January 2007), pp. 129–159, esp. pp. 151–152.

Othmar Keel and Silvia Schroer, Eva—Mutter alles Lebendigen, 2nd ed. (Fribourg Switzerland: Academic Press, 2006).

Or unless there was a wall that disconnected the two even before the construction of Hezekiah’s Tunnel, but even Shimron did not raise such a speculation.

See my reply to him earlier, which he didn’t address. I should reitirate that I brought up this issue in my original paper only to claim that if water couldn’t have been raised through the shaft, it was clearly impossible to raise stones (see pp. 74–76 of my original paper). As we will see, it doesn’t really matter how it was dug.

And he continues to misrepresent my views: Shimron, for some reason, repeatedly claims (twice in his final response and once in his original one) that I base my argument entirely on Vincent’s description. One can but wonder why?