UHL/CSEC Downloadable Publications

Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls:

• Reassessing the Judean Desert Caves: Libraries, Archives, Genizas and Hiding Places
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Historical Implications of the Early Second Century Dating of the 4Q249-250 Cryptic A Corpus
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Qumran - The Encyclopedia Judaica (new edition, 2006)
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• The Multilayered Stratigraphy Of Qumran And The Dead Sea Scrolls
  Paper presented at the Napa meeting of ASOR in November 1997
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Kelei Dema': Tithe Jars, Scroll Jars and Cookie Jars
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• The Essene Yearly Renewal Ceremony and the Baptism of Repentance
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• A Table Prepared in the Wilderness
  Pantries and Tables, Pure Food and Sacred Space at Qumran
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Calenders during the Second Temple Period:

• A Reassessment of Qumran’s Calendars
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Dated Bronze Coinage of the Sabbatical Years of Release and the First Jewish City Coin (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
  See also:
  1. The First “Prosbol” and the Beginning the Sabbatical/Shmitta Year (updated)
  2. Sabbatical Year coins of Alexander Jannaeus
  3. The Sabbatical Year Coinage of Herod the Great
  4. The Sabbatical Year of Herod Agrippa I
  5. The Sabbatical Year, Year Four, of the First Revolt and the Geulah
  6. Sabbatical Year, Year One of the Second Revolt

Talpiot Tomb:

• "Cracks in the Foundation": Details of how the different scholars from the documentary "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" have subsequently retracted their support from the film
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• A Forensic Science Analysis of "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" Documentary
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• "Mary Magdalene is now missing: A corrected reading of Rahmani Ossuary 701" By Stephen Pfann, Ph.D (See supplementary note as well)
• The Improper Application of Statistics in "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" By Stephen Pfann, Ph.D

Nazareth Village Farm:

• Surveys and Excavations at the Nazareth Village Farm (1997–2002): Final Report
  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

UHL in the News

• Israel Museum unveils rare Old Testament manuscript from "silent era"
  A rare Old Testament manuscript some 1,300 years old is finally on display for the first time, after making its way from a secret room in a Cairo synagogue to the hands of an American collector. (See UHL Weblog as well)
• Jesus tomb film scholars backtrack
  Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions...
• Scholar: 'Jesus Tomb' documentary got it wrong
  A prominent scholar looking into the factual basis of a popular but widely criticized documentary film that claims to have located the tomb of Jesus said Tuesday that a crucial piece of evidence filmmakers used to support their claim is a mistake.
• Giving 'Jesus' the silent treatment
  At the New York press conference held Monday to launch his The Lost Tomb of Jesus documentary, filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici was asked whether his whole thesis hinged on the inscription on the ossuary alongside him truly reading "Jesus son of Joseph."
• Director Claims Discovery Of Jesus' Tomb
  At a news conference in New York City on Monday morning, film director James Cameron described the evidence he and other filmmakers said proves Jesus was buried and had a son...
• Nazarenes live and act as Jesus did
  Two thousand years after Jesus walked the hills of the Galilee, a group of American and Israeli scholars have created Nazareth Village, the kind of first-century Hebrew town where Jesus grew up, in the very city where he was raised.
• Nazareth Village: Recreating Jesus' Birth
  From childhood most of us learned a traditional version of the birth of Jesus. But scholars say that wasn't exactly the way it happened.
• Re-Tracing Mary's Footsteps Through Check Points, Visas and Borders
  Historic Route Proves Difficult in Modern Political Era
• Ancient latrine fuels debate at Qumran
  Researchers say their discovery of a 2,000-year-old toilet at one of the world's most important archaeological sites sheds new light on whether the ancient Essene community was home to the authors of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• New Light On An Old, Old Story: Jesus' Birth At Bethlehem
  (see newspaper article below)
• 'Miracle Pool' Found in Jerusalem
  Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered the stone remains of the biblical Siloam Pool
  Associated Press, December 24, 2004
• Remains of 'miracle' site identified
  Archaeologists in Jerusalem have identified the remains of the Siloam Pool
  Associated Press, December 23, 2004
• ...After 50 Stormy Years
  RAYS OF LIGHT NOW FALL ON STUDY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
  From The New York Times, July 27, 1997
• ...New Look to Old Story
  Jesus was born at home, not in stable, say two leading Bible scholars.
  Associated Press, December 10, 1994
  (see above article)
• ...Bible Scholar
  SHEDS LIGHT ON JESUS' BOYHOOD IN NAZARETH
  Associated Press, December 24, 1997
• ...New Archaeological Dig
  SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS
  published by UHL
• ...Last Supper Chalice Likely a Simple Clay Cup
  Associated Press, April 11, 1998

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