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Jul 13 Blog

First Person: Was the Dead Sea Scroll Community Celibate?

One of the many fascinating questions about the Dead Sea Scroll community living at Qumran is whether its members were celibate. Did they marry and have children or not?

Mar 5 Blog

Raising the BAR

By: Susan Laden

From humble beginnings, Biblical Archaeology Review has become the world’s most widely read Biblical archaeology magazine. See how it all began—with Hershel Shanks at the helm—and some highlights from the past 43 years.

May 30 Blog

Dead Sea Scroll Mystery

By: Hershel Shanks

Hershel Shanks’s First Person in the May/June 2014 issue of BAR

Jun 7 Blog

The Curse of Ham—A New Reading in the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Noah Wiener

The harshness of the curse of Ham, his son Canaan and their descendants has been a source of scholarly debate for millennia. A new reading of the Dead Sea Scroll 4Q180-4Q181* provides a fresh perspective on Canaan’s transgression.

Apr 16 Blog

Cast of Characters

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

A list of prominent biblical scholars, professors, priests and many others who have been involved in the study, publication and protection of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Dec 11 Blog

John Strugnell (1930–2007)

By: Sidnie White Crawford

John Strugnell, former editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project and Professor of Christian Origins emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died on November 30 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass after a brief illness.

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