Jodi Magness is an archaeologist specializing in the Roman-period Levant, and this Eerdmans book is her standard scholarly archaeological study of the Qumran site and its relationship to the Dead Sea Scrolls found in nearby caves. Its strength is direct excavation-based analysis, weighing the physical evidence at the site itself, its water system, cemetery and pottery, against competing theories of who lived there and why, rather than assuming the scrolls' sectarian content settles the site's identity on its own. Its limit is that it is an archaeological study of the site and the circumstances of the scrolls' discovery and custody, not a source for the textual content or theology of any individual scroll, which needs a source such as VanderKam's study of the scrolls' content specifically.
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Jodi Magness's standard scholarly archaeological study of the Qumran site, useful for archaeological facts rather than the textual content or theology of any one scroll. NotesJodi Magness's standard scholarly archaeological study of the Qumran site and its relationship to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Use for established archaeological facts about Qumran and the scrolls' discovery and custody; an archaeological study, not a source for the textual content or theology of any one specific scroll, which needs a source such as VanderKam's The Dead Sea Scrolls Today.
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AuthorJodi Magness
PublisherWilliam B. Eerdmans
Publication Year2002
URLhttps://www.eerdmans.com/9781467462419/the-archaeology-of-qumran-and-the-dead-sea-scrolls-2nd-ed/
Source TypeScholarly work
Claims Backed By This Source (37 claims)
This source backs 37 claims across the atlas. As facts: 25 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 8 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Bodies of Water, 4 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Textual Witnesses, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Regions, 2 claims: 2 general references.
- Custodians & Museums, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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