Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 308 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9789047407973
Series Statement:
Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah v. 57
Content:
Preliminary Material /Katharina Galor , Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg -- Qumran Archaeology in Search of a Consensus /Katharina Galor and Jürgen Zangenberg -- Some Remarks on the Archaeology of Qumran /Jean-Baptiste Humbert -- The 1996 Excavations at Qumran and the Context of the New Hebrew Ostracon /James F. Strange -- Back to Qumran: Ten Years of Excavation and Research, 1993–2004 /Yizhak Magen and Yuval Peleg -- Hedging the Holy at Qumran: Walls as Symbolic Devices /Joan Branham -- Khirbet Qumran in Period III /Joan E. Taylor -- The Legacy of an Error in Archaeological Interpretation: The Dating of the Qumran Cave Scroll Deposits /Gregory L. Doudna -- A Table Prepared in the Wilderness: Pantries and Tables, Pure Food and Sacred Space at Qumran /Stephen Pfann -- Facts and Results Based on Skeletal Remains from Qumran Found in the Collectio Kurth: A Study in Methodology /Olav Röhrer-Ertl -- A Reconsideration of the Human Remains in the French Collection from Qumran /Susan Guise Sheridan and Jaime Ullinger -- The Discovery and Excavation of the Khirbet Qazone Cemetery and Its Significance Relative to Qumran /Konstantinos D. Politis -- Qumran in the Second Temple Period—A Reassessment /Yizhar Hirschfeld -- Agricultural Development in Antiquity: Improvements in the Cultivation and Production of Balsam /Joseph Patrich -- Was There Agriculture at Qumran? /Magen Broshi and Hanan Eshel -- The Production of Indigo Dye in the Installations of ʿAin Feshkha /Mireille Bélis -- Qumran and the Hasmonaean and Herodian Winter Palaces of Jericho: The Implication of the Pottery Finds on the Interpretation of the Settlement at Qumran /Rachel Bar-Nathan -- Qumran: the Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls Archaeological Interpretations and Debates /Katharina Galor , Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg -- Bibliography of Secondary Literature /Katharina Galor , Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg -- Index of Ancient Literature /Katharina Galor , Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg.
Content:
Today, archaeology plays an ever growing role in Qumran studies. Fifteen papers presented in 2002 at Brown University provide the necessary data to break new ground in the recent debate about the character of Qumran. Section I discusses material from old and new excavations that help assess the validity of the traditional Qumran-Essene hypothesis. Part II discusses various aspects of the main settlement such as division of space, the character of period III, the date of the cave scroll deposits and the use of food. Part III deals with the Qumran cemetery and a similar graveyard at Khirbet Qazone. Part IV places Qumran into a wider regional context, concentrating on local agriculture and ceramic production. The articles strongly call for a new awareness for archaeological detail and, in their various ways, instigate a renewed debate about how to bring texts and material culture into a meaningful dialogue
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-297) and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004145047
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe International Conference "Qumran--The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates" (2002 : Providence, R.I.) Qumran, the site of the Dead Sea scrolls Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789047407973
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