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Qumran Revisited–new book

Posted on September 1, 2013 by gdoudna

  I have a new book out: David Stacey and Gregory Doudna, with a contribution from Gideon Avni, Qumran Revisited: A Reassessment of the Archaeology of the Site and its Texts (BAR International Series 2520; Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013). David Stacey is an archaeologist … Continue reading →

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Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls; new biography of Milik

Posted on December 5, 2011 by gdoudna

Two interesting books: (1) T. Lim and J. Collins (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Many good articles, especially Martin Goodman (“the notion that the Dead Sea sectarians cut themselves off from … Continue reading →

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The “yachad ostracon” found at Qumran

Posted on October 22, 2011 by gdoudna

Greg Doudna, “Ostraca KhQ1 and KhQ2 from the cemetery of Qumran: a new edition”, in E. Ben-Zvi, ed., Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures II. Comprising the contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures vol. 5 (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007), pp. 59-116. … Continue reading →

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The Legacy of an Error in Archaeological Interpretation: the Dating of the Qumran Cave Scroll Deposits

Posted on October 10, 2011 by gdoudna

In this article, delivered as a paper in 2002 at a Qumran archaeology conference and published in 2006, I argued that the scholarly belief in the dating of the scroll deposits in the caves around Qumran at the time of … Continue reading →

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Allusions to the End of the Hasmonean Dynasty in Pesher Nahum (4Q169)

Posted on October 3, 2011 by gdoudna

Gregory L. Doudna, “Allusions to the End of the Hasmonean Dynasty in Pesher Nahum (4Q169)”, in George Brooke and Jesper Høgenhaven, eds, The Mermaid and the Partridge. Essays from the Copenhagen Conference [June 2009] on Revising Texts from Cave Four … Continue reading →

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