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Jul 24 Blog

Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

A recent computer analysis of handwriting from the Great Isaiah Scroll—one of the longest and best preserved of the Dead Sea Scrolls—found the 54-column text was produced by two different scribes who apparently worked in shifts to complete the task.

Mar 11 Blog

Milestones: Clinton Bailey (1936–2025)

By: Aaron Koller

Ethnographer Clinton Bailey devoted nearly 60 years—two-thirds of his long and productive life—to the lives of the Bedouin in the Negev and Sinai. Throughout his […]

May 26 Blog

Defending the “House of David”

By: André Lemaire and Jean-Philippe Delorme

In our article “Mesha’s Stele and the House of David” (Biblical Archaeology Review, Winter 2022), we showed that new photographs of the stone and the […]

Aug 13 Blog

Review: Bedouin Culture in the Bible

By: Edward L. Greenstein

Bedouin Culture in the Bible By Clinton Bailey (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2018), 278 pp., 28 b/w illus., $55.00 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edward […]

Nov 25 Blog

The Complex Societies of Biblical-era Nomads

By: Jonathan Laden

Is archaeology biased against biblical nomads? Because modern archaeologists can find and analyze architectural remains more easily than ancient nomadic camp sites, do they falsely […]

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