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Article: The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls.(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2004
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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF QUMRAN AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS. By Jodi Magness. Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. Pp. xlvi + 238. $26.
The sites of Khirbet Qumran and 'Ain Feshkha, near the caves in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, were excavated by Roland de Vaux, O.P., archeologist of the Ecole Biblique, in 1951, 1953-1956, and 1958. He wrote yearly preliminary reports on the excavations in the Revue biblique and published a general overview of the archeology of Qumran in the Schweich Lectures, originally in French (1961) and in a revised English version, Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1973). ...