Holistic Qumran : trans-disciplinary research of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls / / edited by Jan Gunneweg, Annemie Adriaens, Joris Dik.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 87
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gunneweg, Jan.; Adriaens, A.; Dik, Joris.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 87.
• Physical Description: xv, 191 p., [13] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.), maps.

Table of Contents

The coin beneath the crust : a pilot study of coins from the Mediterranean coast of Israel / Annemie Adriaens ... [et al.] -- A short note on the application of synchrotron-based micro-tomography on the Dead Sea scrolls / Joris Dik ... [et al.] -- Gender and Qumran / Katharina Galor -- Was the Qumran settlement a mere pottery production center? What instrumental neutron activation revealed / Jan Gunneweg, Marta Balla -- Introduction to the "buried bones" / Jan Gunneweg -- Animal remains from Khirbet Qumran : a case study of two bones (QUM 392 and 393) from two bone burials / Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, Tzviki Rosenberg, Charles Greenblatt -- Degradation of parchment and ink of the Dead Sea scrolls investigated using synchrotron-based X-ray and infrared microscopy / Bridget Murphy ... [et al.] -- Radiocarbon dating and Qumran / Johannes van der Plicht, Kaare L. Rasmussen -- Characterization of the writing media of the Dead Sea scrolls / Ira Rabin ... [et al.] -- On the age of Jar-35 / Kaare L. Rasmussen ... [et al.] -- Analyzes [sic] of a sample of "masse de fer" from Qumran locus 104 excavated by R. de Vaux / Kaare L. Rasmussen ... [et al.] -- The sciences and the reconstruction of the ancient scrolls : possibilities and impossibilities (summary) / Emanuel Tov -- Introduction to "soap at Qumran" / Jan Gunneweg -- Making soap as the Qumranites did / Sasja van der Vaart ... [et al.] -- The Dead Sea, the nearest neighbor of Qumran and the Dead Sea manuscripts : what SEM, XRD and instrumental neutron activation may show about Dead Sea mud / Jan Gunneweg.