Treasure of the caves
Subtitle: the story of the Dead Sea scrolls
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780027681307
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls.
Notes: Publisher no. 76813 (Macmillan, from back cover and jacket)
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: On a spring day in 1947 a boy named Muhammad Adh-Dhib was searching for a lost goat; title: In October and November of 1947 archaeologists in Jerusalem had something on their minds besides scientific matters; title: The Metropolitan broke off negotiations with Dr. Sulenik because another monk of St. Mark's, Brother Sowmy, suggested he get in touch with the American School of Oriental Research instead; title: The end of the British Mandate and the birth of Israel brought about the creation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; title: When Saad reached Bethlehem, he decided to leave the guards behind; title: Harding and de Vaux had dug up the first grave in the summer of 1949; title: The work of excavation was slow and arduous; title: While Harding searched for the best way of raising funds, he and de Vaux continued the excavation of the dwelling on the plateau; title: On the other side of the armistice barrier that cut Jerusalem in two, Yigael Yadin carried on the work of his father, the late Dr. Sukenik; title: De Vaux and Harding, in the fall of 1954, uncovered three small pottery jars near the southern walls of the excavation; title: In 1956 Harding resigned his position as Director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, and moved to Lebanon