Number 312 November 1998
ARTICLES
- AVI GOPHER AND A. NIGEL GORING -MORRIS: Abu Salem: A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Camp in the Central Negev Highlands, Israel . . . . 1
- EMILE PUECH: The Necropolises of Khirbet Qumran and Ain el-Ghuweir and the Essene Belief in Afterlife . . . . 21
- JODI MAGNESS: Two Notes on the Archaeology of the Qumran . . . .45
REVIEW ARTICLE
- LARRY G. HERR: The Palaeography of West Semitic Stamp Seals . . . .45
BOOK REVIEWS
- PETER M. M. G. AKKERMANS, editor: Tell Sabi Abyad - The Late Neolithic Settlement: Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria. (Alan H. Simmons) . . . . . 79
- CARL S. EHRLICH: The Philistines in Transition: A History from ca. 1000-730 B.C.E (Tammi J. Schneider) . . . . . 81
- SIMON B. PARKER: Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions: Comparative Studies on Narratives in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible (Ziony Zevit) . . . . . 82
- ISRAEL EPH AL AND JOSEPH NAVEH: Aramaic Ostraca of the Fourth Century B.C. from Idumaea (Chips Dobbs-Allsopp) . . . . . 84
- CHRISTA CLAMER: Fouilles Archéologiques de Aïn ez-Zara/Callirrhoé: villégiature hérodienne (Yvonne Gerber) . . 86
- DAVID L, KENNEDY, editor: The Roman Army in the East (David F. Graf) . . . . . 89
- CRAIG A. EVANS and PETER W. FLINT, editors: Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Sidnie White Crawford) . . . . . 90
- JOSHUA PRAWER AND HAGGAI BEN-SHAMMI, editors: The History of Jerusalem:The Early Muslim Period 638-1099 (ROBERT SCHICK) . . . . . 92
- DAVID R. HARRIS, editor: The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary Perspectives (Mark E. Hall) . . . . . 93