Thursday, September 03, 2009

TOP TEN DISCOVERIES: Biblical Archaeology Review, in honor of its 200th issue, has selected "ten excavated finds from our first 199 issues that are undeniably important to our understanding of the Biblical world." All of the discoveries in the list are important and interesting, and most have been found since BAR started publishing in the 1970s and were covered at the time of their discovery in BAR. But I'm still scratching my head over the exception, the Coptic Gnostic library from Nag Hammadi, and trying to figure out why it is included and the Dead Sea Scrolls are not.