Qumran : Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17-19 2002.

Intro -- FOREWORD --- John J. Collins -- ABBREVIATIONS -- QUMRAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN SEARCH OF A CONSENSUS --- Katharina Galor and Jürgen Zangenberg -- PART I OLD AND RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT QUMRAN -- CHAPTER ONE SOME REMARKS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF QUMRAN --- Jean-Baptiste Humbert -- CHAPTER TWO THE 1996 EXCAVATIONS AT QUMRAN AND THE CONTEXT OF THE NEW HEBREW OSTRACON --- James F. Strange -- CHAPTER THREE BACK TO QUMRAN: TEN YEARS OF EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH, 1993-2004 --- Yizhak Magen and Yuval Peleg -- PART II INTERPRETING THE QUMRAN SITE -- CHAPTER FOUR HEDGING THE HOLY AT QUMRAN: WALLS AS SYMBOLIC DEVICES --- Joan Branham -- CHAPTER FIVE KHIRBET QUMRAN IN PERIOD III --- Joan E. Taylor -- CHAPTER SIX THE LEGACY OF AN ERROR IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION: THE DATING OF THE QUMRAN CAVE SCROLL DEPOSITS --- Gregory L. Doudna -- CHAPTER SEVEN A TABLE PREPARED IN THE WILDERNESS: PANTRIES AND TABLES, PURE FOOD AND SACRED SPACE AT QUMRAN --- Stephen Pfann -- PART III THE QUMRAN CEMETERIES IN CONTEXT -- CHAPTER EIGHT FACTS AND RESULTS BASED ON SKELETAL REMAINS FROM QUMRAN FOUND IN THE COLLECTIO KURTH: A STUDY IN METHODOLOGY --- Olav Röhrer-Ertl -- CHAPTER NINE A RECONSIDERATION OF THE HUMAN REMAINS IN THE FRENCH COLLECTION FROM QUMRAN --- Susan Guise Sheridan and Jaime Ullinger -- CHAPTER TEN THE DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION OF THE KHIRBET QAZONE CEMETERY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE RELATIVE TO QUMRAN --- Konstantinos D. Politis -- PART IV REGIONAL ASPECTS OF QUMRAN ARCHAEOLOGY -- CHAPTER ELEVEN QUMRAN IN THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD-A REASSESSMENT --- Yizhar Hirschfeld -- CHAPTER TWELVE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ANTIQUITY: IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION OF BALSAM --- Joseph Patrich -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN WAS THERE AGRICULTURE AT QUMRAN? --- Magen Broshi and Hanan Eshel.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE PRODUCTION OF INDIGO DYE IN THE INSTALLATIONS OF 'AIN FESHKHA --- Mireille Bélis -- 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 -- PART V APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND INDEX -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Archaeology plays an ever increasing role in Qumran studies. Fifteen renowned experts discuss the latest archaeological discoveries and break new ground for a lively debate about the character of the famous site on the shore of the Dead Sea.

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