Gerald Lankester Harding [SEP] date of birth
Gerald Lankester Harding
Gerald Lankester Harding (8 December 1901 – 11 February 1979) was a British archaeologist who was the Director of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan from 1936 to 1956. His tenure spanned the period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and brought to public awareness. Without his efforts many of the scrolls might have disappeared into private collections never to be seen again.
Life.
Harding was born in Tientsin, North China in 1901, but spent his childhood from age two to thirteen in Singapore
Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology" (London: Victor Gollancz, 1985)
- de Vaux, Roland, "La Grotte des Manuscrits Hébreux", "Revue Biblique" 56 (1949), 586–609.
- Harding, Gerald Lankester, "The Antiquities of Jordan" (London: Lutterworth Press, 1959).
- Macdonald, Michael "In Memoriam Gerald Lankester Harding" "Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan" 23 (1979): 198–200.
- VanderKam, James & Flint