Endnote 3 – Two Dogs, a Goat and a Partridge: An Archaeologist’s Best Friends

The significance of this letter was first observed by Otto Eissfeldt, “Der Anlass zur Entdeckung der Höhle und ihr ähnliche Vorgänge aus älterer Zeit,” Theologische Literaturzeitung 10 (1949), pp. 597–600. A readily available English translation of this document may be found in, Yigael Yadin, The Temple Scroll: The Hidden Law of the Dead Sea Sect (London: Weidenfelf and Nicolson, 1985), pp. 98–99.