Biblical-Archaeology on J. David Stark

Price and House, "Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology"

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:00:01 +0000

Due out this November is Randall Price and Wayne House’s “Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology.”

Qumran Cave 12: Update

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:24:27 +0000

Since my previous post about Qumran Cave 12, a few other noteworthy articles have cropped up, including on:

FoxNews (HT: Jordan Sekulow via Craig Evans),
NPR (HT: Andreas Köstenberger), and
Times of Israel (HT: Douglas Estes).

Much of what is in these articles about the new find is also in other reports. But, the Times piece confirms that

Qumran Cave 12

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:00:05 +0000

Working under the auspices of Operation Scroll, archaeologists have discovered what is being numbered as the twelfth scroll cave in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran.

Work in the new cave has produced no new texts, but both linen (characteristic of scroll wrappers found elsewhere) and blank parchment fragments suggest that texts probably were stored in the cave at some point. Since no [scroll-type] texts were found in this cave, as with cave 8, the new cave’s designation will likely be Q12 rather than 12Q. [Updated 15 February 2017. For explanation of this correction, please see Qumran Cave 12: Update 2.]