Desert Force Desert Force The Desert Force ( Arabic:قوات البادية , Eng:Al-Badia Force), also known as the Desert Patrol, is a paramilitary force of Transjordan. Its main task was to guard Jordanian borders with neighboring Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as to provide protection for oil pipe lines of Iraqi Petroleum Company (IPC). It also participated in campaigns of Syria and Iraq during World War II. The Desert Patrol was formed as a semi-independent part of the Arab Legion in February 1931 by Glubb Pasha to secure Transjordan's desert region of the country, effectively everything east of the cultivated area
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert of texts, but only as a fair remark to an otherwise admirable publication. Knohl reviewed "Discoveries in the Judaean Desert", Volume 10: "Qumran Cave 4, V. Miqṣat Ma῾ase ha-Torah". He complimented the work of the editors, Strugnell and Qimron, but suggested a different dating for the scroll than the dating stated by the authors. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (or DJD) is the official, 40-volume, publication series that serves as the "editio princeps" for the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is published by Oxford University Press. The international team of scholars, involved in the publishing project,