Endnote 12 – A Ritual Purification Center

Hanan Eshel and Magen Broshi, “So Far No Cigar,” BAR 22:02. The report also mentioned that they had found some evidence of contemporary habitation in two of the nearby marl caves, but there still seems to be no proof of long-term intensive settlement within many caves by hundreds of sectarians. As for the lines of stones, when all the data are made public, then scholars can decide whether they agree with the interpretation that Eshel and Broshi have given.