Jean-Baptiste Humbert

Jean-Baptiste Humbert (born 8 December 1940) is a French archaeologist who has excavated in Jordan, Palestine, Iran and Israel.

He is of the order of the Dominicans and is director of the Archaeology Laboratory of the École Biblique in Jerusalem.

[1] He was responsible for publishing the notes and materials from the excavations of Qumran, which were under the direction of Roland de Vaux.

[2] In 1986[3] the Ecole Biblique decided to publish the final report of the Qumran excavations carried out by Roland de Vaux and appointed Humbert to expedite the publication.

[4] In 1993 he published the notes and photographs of de Vaux in collaboration with Alain Chambon.