Endnote 18 – The Significance of the Scrolls

A complete and methodical refutation of the Golb hypothesis is included in Florentino Garcia-Martinez, “A ‘Groningen’ Hypothesis of Qumran Origins and Early History,” to appear in the volume of Revue de Qumran devoted to the Groningen conference proceedings. The ‘Groningen’ hypothesis, however, Will also have to be seriously modified after the publication of MMT.