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Footnotes
1. Edward M. Cook, “What Was Qumran? A Ritual Purification Center,” BAR, 22:06.
2. Ronny Reich, “The Great Mikveh Debate,” BAR, 19:02.
3. See Yitzhak Magen, “Ancient Israel’s Stone Age: Purity in Second Temple Times,” BAR, 24:05; Avraham Faust, “Purity and Impurity in Iron Age Israel,” BAR, 45:02.
4. Steven Fine, “Why Bone Boxes? Splendor of Herodian Jerusalem Reflected in Burial Practices,” BAR, September/October 2001.
Endnotes
1.
John C. Poirier, “Purity Beyond the Temple in the Second Temple Era,” Journal of Biblical Literature 122.2 (2003), pp. 247-265.
2.
Yonatan Adler, “Purity in the Roman Period,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology, vol. 2 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013), pp. 240-249.
3.
Vered Noam, “Stringency in Qumran: A Reassessment,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 40.3 (2009), pp. 342-355 (345).
4.
See Jürgen Zangeberg, “Pure Stone: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Purity Practices in Late Second Temple Judaism (Miqwa’ot and Stone Vessels),“ in Christian Frevel and Christophe Nihan, eds., Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Dynamics in History and Religion, vol. 3 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 537-572 (553).