UHL/CSEC Downloadable Publications

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Mount Zion Excavation and Stone Cup:

• The Mount Zion Inscribed Stone Cup: Preliminary Observations

Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls:

• Period Ia and the terminus a quo of de Vaux’s Period Ib, Essene Occupation in: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture (2011)
• Reassessing the Judean Desert Caves: Libraries, Archives, Genizas and Hiding Places
• Historical Implications of the Early Second Century Dating of the 4Q249-250 Cryptic A Corpus
• Qumran - The Encyclopedia Judaica (new edition, 2006)
• The Multilayered Stratigraphy Of Qumran And The Dead Sea Scrolls
  Paper presented at the Napa meeting of ASOR in November 1997
• Kelei Dema': Tithe Jars, Scroll Jars and Cookie Jars
• The Essene Yearly Renewal Ceremony and the Baptism of Repentance
• A Table Prepared in the Wilderness
  Pantries and Tables, Pure Food and Sacred Space at Qumran

Calenders during the Second Temple Period:

• The Writings in Esoteric Script from Qumran
• A Reassessment of Qumran’s Calendars
• Dated Bronze Coinage of the Sabbatical Years of Release and the First Jewish City Coin
  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:

• "Demythologyzing the Talpiot Tomb: The Tomb of Another Jesus, Mary and Joseph"*
• "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
• A Forensic Science Analysis of "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" Documentary
• "Mary Magdalene is now missing: A corrected reading of Rahmani Ossuary 701"* (See supplementary note as well)
• The Improper Application of Statistics in "The Lost Tomb of Jesus"*

Nazareth Village Farm:

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