The Qumran Settlement—Monastery, Villa or Fortress?
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Endnotes
All quotes from de Vaux in this article are from his Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls, rev. ed. (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973).
Philip R. Davies, “How Not to Do Archaeology: The Story of Qumran,” Biblical Archaeologist (BA) 51 (1988), p. 203.
Norman Golb, “The Problem of the Origin and Identification of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124 (1980), pp. 1–24; and Golb, “Who Hid the Scrolls?” BA 48 (1985), pp. 68–82.
Golb seems unaware of the fact that Qumran is located at a dead end. He nowhere mentions Ras Feshka. Because there was access to Jerusalem from Qumran, Golb concludes that “the site was thus not an isolated locale of desert monks. On the contrary, it emerges as a fortress of strategic importance in the Judean wilderness” (Golb, “Who Hid the Scrolls?” p. 68).