Proceedings of the Conference held at Brown University, November 17-19, 2002 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.
Author(s): Katharina Galor, Jean-baptiste Humbert, Jurgen Zangenberg, International Conference Qumran--the Si
Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Vol. 57
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 319
CONTENTS......Page 6
FOREWORD --- John J. Collins......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 10
QUMRAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN SEARCH OF A CONSENSUS --- Katharina Galor and Jürgen Zangenberg......Page 12
PART I OLD AND RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT QUMRAN......Page 28
CHAPTER ONE SOME REMARKS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF QUMRAN --- Jean-Baptiste Humbert......Page 30
CHAPTER TWO THE 1996 EXCAVATIONS AT QUMRAN AND THE CONTEXT OF THE NEW HEBREW OSTRACON --- James F. Strange......Page 52
CHAPTER THREE BACK TO QUMRAN: TEN YEARS OF EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH, 1993–2004 --- Yizhak Magen and Yuval Peleg......Page 66
PART II INTERPRETING THE QUMRAN SITE......Page 126
CHAPTER FOUR HEDGING THE HOLY AT QUMRAN: WALLS AS SYMBOLIC DEVICES --- Joan Branham......Page 128
CHAPTER FIVE KHIRBET QUMRAN IN PERIOD III --- Joan E. Taylor......Page 144
CHAPTER SIX THE LEGACY OF AN ERROR IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION: THE DATING OF THE QUMRAN CAVE SCROLL DEPOSITS --- Gregory L. Doudna......Page 158
CHAPTER SEVEN A TABLE PREPARED IN THE WILDERNESS: PANTRIES AND TABLES, PURE FOOD AND SACRED SPACE AT QUMRAN --- Stephen Pfann......Page 170
PART III THE QUMRAN CEMETERIES IN CONTEXT......Page 190
CHAPTER EIGHT FACTS AND RESULTS BASED ON SKELETAL REMAINS FROM QUMRAN FOUND IN THE COLLECTIO KURTH: A STUDY IN METHODOLOGY --- Olav Röhrer-Ertl......Page 192
CHAPTER NINE A RECONSIDERATION OF THE HUMAN REMAINS IN THE FRENCH COLLECTION FROM QUMRAN --- Susan Guise Sheridan and Jaime Ullinger......Page 206
CHAPTER TEN THE DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION OF THE KHIRBET QAZONE CEMETERY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE RELATIVE TO QUMRAN --- Konstantinos D. Politis......Page 224
PART IV REGIONAL ASPECTS OF QUMRAN ARCHAEOLOGY......Page 232
CHAPTER ELEVEN QUMRAN IN THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD—A REASSESSMENT --- Yizhar Hirschfeld......Page 234
CHAPTER TWELVE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ANTIQUITY: IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION OF BALSAM --- Joseph Patrich......Page 252
CHAPTER THIRTEEN WAS THERE AGRICULTURE AT QUMRAN? --- Magen Broshi and Hanan Eshel......Page 260
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE PRODUCTION OF INDIGO DYE IN THE INSTALLATIONS OF 'AIN FESHKHA --- Mireille Bélis......Page 264
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 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......Page 274
PART V APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND INDEX......Page 290
APPENDIX......Page 292
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY LITERATURE......Page 296
INDEX OF ANCIENT LITERATURE......Page 310
