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The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most interesting and important archaeological discoveries ever made, and the excavation of the Qumran community itself has provided invaluable information about Judaism and the Jewish world in the last centuries B.C.E. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, however, the Qumran site continues to be the object of intense scholarly debate. In a book meant to introduce general...

sense is important in archaeological interpretation (remember the factor of human behavior?). As we shall see, all of the available evidence supports de Vaux’s interpretation of Qumran as a sectarian settlement. Although the other interpretations could account for some of the evidence (for example, certain features of the settlement’s design resemble contemporary villas), they leave much of it unsolved (for example, if Qumran was a villa, what is the connection between the scrolls and the inhabitants
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