Biblical Archaeology Review is the flagship publication of the Biblical Archaeology Society. For more than 40 years it has been making the world of archaeology in the lands of the Bible come alive for the interested layperson. Full of vivid images and articles written by leading scholars, this is a must read for anyone interested in the archaeology of the ancient Near East.
Civility is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity in the debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls. The discussion has recently descended to a new low in an interview published in the October 4, 1991, issue of Ha’aretz, a leading Tel Aviv daily.
In what may seem like BAR’s unrelieved criticism of the Israel Antiquities Authority, its scroll advisory committee and the international team of Dead Sea Scroll editors, we may have neglected to emphasize what they have done right and done well. It is time to correct this omission.
On November 19, 1991, the Biblical Archaeology Society, publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review, published a two-volume set of photographs of the previously unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been liberated. The time has now come to preserve the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In opening your pages to a discussion of anti-Semitism (Queries & Comments, BAR 17:04), BAR is performing an important service to the world in general.
Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan
Civilization Before Greece and Rome
H. W. F. Saggs (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1989) 25 photos, 15 figures, 4 maps, 322 pp., $29.95.
