Biblical Archaeology Review

Identified by Dr. Dixie West of Kansas State University.

Judith Anne Brown, John Marco Allegro, The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005), p. 125.

Allegro found one of the tunnels cleared to about 100 feet (the one we excavated); only the first couple steps of the other tunnel had been cleared. See John Marco Allegro, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll, 2nd rev. ed. (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1964), p. 60.

See G.H.R. Wright, “The Archaeological Remains at el Mird in the Wilderness of Judea,” Biblica, vol. 42 (1961), pp. 43–46.

“The Mystery of the Copper Scroll” in Hershel Shanks, ed., Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York: Random House, 1992), p. 237.

Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 19 (1956), p. 532.

The Times (London), June 1, 1956, p. 12.

See S. Geva, “The Painted Sherd of Ramat Raḥel,” Israel Exploration Journal 31 (1981), pp. 186–189.

Paolo Matthiae, “The Painted Sherd of Ramat Raḥel,” in Aharoni, Excavations at Ramat Raḥel (Seasons 1961 and 1962), pp. 85–94.

David Ussishkin, “The Destruction of Lachish by Sennacherib and the Dating of the Royal Judean Storage Jars,” Tel Aviv 4 (1977), pp. 28–60; Gabriel Barkay and Andrew G. Vaughn, “The Royal and Official Seal Impressions from Lachish,” in Ussishkin, ed., The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish 1973–1994, vol. 4 (Tel Aviv, 2004), pp. 2148–2173.