Article: The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Briefly Noted).(Book Review)

The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. By Jodi Magness (Eerdmans, $60). Although Qumran, the archaeological site near the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, was excavated in the 1950s by a team led by Roland de Vaux, only preliminary findings have been published, and de Vaux himself died in 1971. M. admirably surveys what can be said about Qumran and the scrolls fifty years after that excavation and is confident that her interpretation will hold, except for minor details, when and if de Vaux's excavation is published in a complete and scholarly fashion. She carefully guides the readers through controversial questions and publishes ample bibliography ...

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