Introduction • Woolley’s Ur Revisited • The New Sumerian Dictionary • Inanna—The Quintessential Femme Fatale • Sumerian “Firsts” • Yigael Yadin 1917–1984 • The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll • The Case of the Gilded Staircase • The Biblical Oryx—A New Name for an Ancient Animal • 1984 BAS Publication Awards