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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran. In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, Sidnie White...

do not agree on the particulars, but do agree that Qumran was not a Jewish sectarian settlement and that the manuscripts found in the caves are not related to the site of Qumran. The better-known proponents of this position are Robert Donceel and Pauline Donceel-Voûte, Norman Golb, the late Yizhar Hirschfeld, Yitzhak Magen and Yuval Peleg, and David Stacey. The Donceels argued that Qumran was a “villa rustica,” with wealthy inhabitants.10 Golb insisted that Qumran was a Hasmonean/Herodian fortress,
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