Endnote 2 – Qumran—The Pottery Factory

By contrast, Magen Broshi argues that 10 of the 16 water installations at the site are mikva’ot. “These ritual baths,” he says, “are perhaps the most important elements identifying the compound as a religious institution.” Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, s.v. “Qumran.” Yet he concedes that six of the water installations, among them the largest, are not ritual immersion pools.