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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...

Contrary to de Saulcy and others, there is no evidence for a connection between Qumran and biblical Gomorrah. Instead, Qumran’s ancient name was Secacah. Secacah is one of the six desert towns listed in Joshua 15:61–62: “Beth ha-ʿArabah, Middin, and Secacah, and Nivshan, and Ir ha-Melah, and Ein Gedi: six towns, with their villages.” The German scholar Martin Noth and others identified Qumran as Ir ha-Melah (the City of Salt). However, evidence from the Copper Scroll, which was found in Cave 3, indicates
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