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A?Choice?Outstanding Academic Title and winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society?s Publication Award for Best Popular Book on Archaeology?The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. Deposited in caves surrounding Qumran by members of a Jewish sect who lived at the site in the first century BCE and first century CE, they provide invaluable information about Judaism in the last centuries BCE.?Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran site continues to be the object of intense scholarly debate. In a book meant to introduce general readers to this fascinating area of study, veteran archaeologist Jodi Magness provides an overview of the archaeology of Qumran that incorporates information from the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary sources.??Magness identifies Qumran as a sectarian settlement, rejecting other interpretations including claims that Qumran was a?villa?rustica?or manor house. By carefully analyzing the .
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