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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title and winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s Publication Award for Best Popular Book on Archaeology. The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. Deposited in caves surrounding Qumran by members of a Jewish sect who lived at the site in the first century BCE and first century CE, they...

Norman Golb was the first to suggest that Qumran was a fort. Since then, other scholars have proposed variants of this theory. Yizhar Hirschfeld argues that Qumran was a fortress in the Hasmonean period while in the Herodian period it was a manor house. Magen and Peleg identify Qumran as a military outpost in the first century BCE which became a pottery production center in the first century CE. Robert Cargill proposes that Qumran was
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