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Footnotes

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See Sidebar: “A Toilet at Qumran,” BAR 34:06, p. 64.

Endnotes

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See further, Steve Mason with Honora Chapman, Flavius Josephus Translation and Commentary: Volume 1B Judean War 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 84–135.

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CD 12:15–17; 11QT 49:11. Joseph M. Baumgarten, “Liquids and Susceptibility to Defilement in New 4Q Texts,” Jewish Quarterly Review 85 (1994), pp. 91–101.

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1QS 6:10–11; also see 7:9.

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See Jodi Magness, Debating Qumran, Collected Essays on Its Archaeology (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), pp. 99–106.

5.

Yigael Yadin, The Temple Scroll, vol. 1 (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1983), p. 298.

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Todd S. Beall, Josephus’ Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988), p. 125.