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Yadin, “Expedition D—The cave of the Letters,” Israel Exploration Journal 12 (1962), pp. 227–229.

Yigael Yadin, Bar-Kokhba (New York Random House, 1971), p. 114.

In addition to Beder, Wen-Amon mentions two other princes whose names are typical of the Sea Peoples: Weret, who had a trading treaty with Tyre, may have been the prince of Ashkelon, the most important Philistine ciry; Mekmer may have been the Philistine ruler of Ashdod or Gaza.

Yigael Yadin, “And Dan, Why Did He Remain in Ships?” Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology 1 (1968), pp. 9–23; also see Lawrence E. Stager, “When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02.

The excavations at Tel Dor, directed by the writer, are sponsored by the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Biblical Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Israel Exploration Society; the University of California, Berkeley; California State University at Sacramento; South California College; Boston University; New York University; the University of Saskatchewan; and McMaster University at Hamilton, Ontario.

For some interesting comments on this portion of 4Q521 see Dale Allison, Jr., “The Baptism of Jesus and a New Dead Sea Scroll,” BAR 18:02.

For a technical discussion, see James Tabor and Michael Wise, “4Q521 ‘On Resurrection’ and the synoptic Gospel Tradition A Preliminary Study,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha (forthcoming).

See Otto Betz, “Was John the Baptist an Essene?” BR 06:06.

One fragmentary line on another fragment of 4Q521 does speak of “its (apparently, the land’s) anointed ones.” In the context—a review of the history of the nation—we take this wording as a reference to the Prophets, who were often described in such terms (e.g. Psalm 105:15 and CD [Damascus Covenant] columns 2 and 6).

This text is in Aramaic. Compare this description with the famous messianic description in the Testament of Levi, chapter 18.