Arabian oryx towards Saudi Arabia, and by 1914, only a few survived outside that country. A few were reported in Jordan into the 1930s, but by the mid-1930s, the only remaining populations were in the Nafud Desert in northwestern Saudi Arabia and the Rub' al Khali in the south. In the 1930s, Arabian princes and oil company clerks started hunting Arabian oryx with automobiles and rifles. Hunts grew in size, and some were reported to employ as many as 300 vehicles. By the middle of the 20th century, the northern population was effectively extinct. The last Arabian oryx in the wild prior
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,