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Dead Sea Scrolls Research Council: Fragments

Qumran—the Evidence of the Inkwells

By Stephen Goranson

The nature of the settlement at Qumran, adjacent to the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, continues to be a hotly debated topic among scholars and the educated public alike. The entrants in the debate are (1) a military fortress, a contention supported by Norman Golb of the University of Chicago; (2) a winter villa, a contention recently advanced by Robert Donceel and Pauline Donceel-Voûte, associated with the universities of Louvain and Fribourg in Belgium, who have been engaged to complete the final excavation report on the site by the École Biblique in Jerusalem; and (3) the […]

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Footnotes

1.

Hershel Shanks,“Blood on the Floor at New York Dead Sea Scroll Conference,” BAR 19:02.

2.

For photographs of all five of these inkwells see “Further Qumran Archaeology Publications in Progress,” Biblical Archaeologist 54 (1991), pp. 110–111.

3.

The Mishnah is the body of Jewish oral law—specifically, the collection of oral laws compiled in the second century A.D. by Rabbi Judah the Prince.