Khirbet Qumrân et Aïn Feshkha III A

Fouilles du P. Roland de Vaux. Vol. III A: L' archéologie de Qumrân.

Contains: Reconsidération de l' interprétation. Les installations périphériques de Khirbet Qumrân. Par Jean-Baptiste Humbert et Alain Chambon, notice de Hervé Monchot. Qumran Terracotta Oil Lamps [Corpus of the Lamps]. By Jolanta Mlynarczyk. Publication de l’École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem et Direction générale de la coopération internationale et du développement Ministère français des Affaires étrangères. This volume presents an up-to-date archaeological reconsideration: a shorter and more precise chronology, in which the earthquake of 31 BC is deleted; the concept of an Essene community is challenged, owing to the lack of a suitable infrastructure; the cemetery itself is connected with a Jewish diaspora scattered around the Dead Sea. Other facilities strengthen the Jewish character of the site, however. In the second part, the peripheral Essene facilities, expanded around an earlier Hellenistic center, are analyzed and described. The essay seeks to outline their internal consistency and to determine their function. The restoration of a stratigraphy, by cross-checking the excavation archives, leads to a redistribution of pottery in four levels in a more precise chronology. The reconsideration makes use of anthropology, which opens up the archaeological field and throws additional light on the manuscripts. 536 Seiten mit 179 Textabb. und 113 Tafeln, Großformat, Leinen (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. Series Archaeologica; Band 5a/Khirbet Qumrân et 'Aïn Feshkha; Vol. IIIA/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2016) minimale Lagerspuren