The caves of Qumran : : proceedings of the international conference, Lugano 2014 / / edited by Marcello Fidanzio.

"In Qumran studies, the attention of scholars has largely been focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls, while archaeology has concentrated above all on the settlement. This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference (Lugano 2014) dedicated entirely to the caves of Qumran. The papers...

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Superior document:Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, volume 118
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 118.
Physical Description:1 online resource (377 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Marcello Fidanzio
  • 1 The Qumran Caves in their Regional Context: A Chronological Review with a Focus on Bar Kokhba Assemblages / Joan E. Taylor
  • 2 Cacher et se cacher à Qumrân : grottes et refuges. Morphologie, fonctions, anthropologie / Jean-Baptiste Humbert
  • 3 The Contents of the Manuscripts from the Caves of Qumran / Florentino García Martínez
  • 4 The Profile and Character of Qumran Cave 4Q: The Community Rule Manuscripts as a Test Case / Charlotte Hempel
  • 5 Scribal Characteristics of the Qumran Scrolls / Emanuel Tov
  • 6 La paléographie des manuscrits de la mer Morte / Emile Puech
  • 7 Terracotta Oil Lamps (Roland de Vaux’s Excavations of the Caves) / Jolanta Młynarczyk
  • 8 The Unpublished Textiles from the Qumran Caves / Mireille Bélis
  • 9 Miscellaneous Artefacts from the Qumran Caves: An Exploration of their Significance / Dennis Mizzi
  • 10 The Distribution of Tefillin Finds among the Judean Desert Caves / Yonatan Adler
  • 11 When and Why Were Caves Near Qumran and in the Judaean Desert Used? / Mladen Popović
  • 12 The Connection between the Site of Qumran and the Scroll Caves in Light of the Ceramic Evidence / Jodi Magness
  • 13 The Functions of the Caves and the Settlement of Qumran: Reflections on a New Chapter of Qumran Research / Jürgen K. Zangenberg
  • 14 The Inscriptional Evidence from Qumran and its Relationship to the Cave 4Q Documents / Sidnie White Crawford
  • 15 The Coins of Khirbet Qumran from the Digs of Roland De Vaux: Returning to Henri Seyrig and Augustus Spijkerman / Bruno Callegher
  • 16 Dating the Scroll Deposits of the Qumran Caves: A Question of Evidence / Gregory L. Doudna
  • 17 History of the “Qumran Caves” in the Iron Age in the Light of the Pottery Evidence / Mariusz Burdajewicz
  • 18 Finds from the Qumran Caves: Roland de Vaux’s Inventory of the Excavations (1949–1956) / Marcello Fidanzio and Jean-Baptiste Humbert
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Sites and Place Names.