An annual award in memory of Sean, the son of Professor G. Dever and Mrs Norma Dever for an article published by a Ph.D. candidate in Syro-Palestinian and Biblical Archaeology that was first presented at an international conference. The award was for the chapter, "4Q318: A Jewish Zodiac Calendar at Qumran?" in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Contexts. Edited by Charlotte Hempel (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 365-395. The paper was presented originally at the conference, "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Context," University of Birmingham, 29 October-1 November, 2007, organised by Charlotte Hempel.
Awarded date
9 Mar 2011
Degree of recognition
International
Granting Organisations
W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research