Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls ─ Archaeological Interpretations And Debates, Proceedings of a Conference held at Brown University, November 17-19, 2002

New data and new ways of thinking have unsettled what scholars thought they knew about Qumran and other sites around the Dead Sea. Rather than moving any closer to a consensus on interpreting the finds, the 15 papers here present conflicting views. Among them are walls as symbolic devices, facts and results based on skeletal remains, Qumran in the Second Temple period, and the production of indigo dye in the installations of Ain Feshka. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Katharina Galor is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. She has excavated in France, Italy and Israel, and has previously taught at Hebrew University and the Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise in Jerusalem.Jean-Baptiste Humbert is Director of the Archaeological Division at the Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise in Jerusalem. He conducted excavations in Israel, Iran, Jordan and Palestine and is in charge of the publication of the Qumran material excavated by de Vaux since 1988.Jurgen Zangenberg holds a research position for New Testament at the University of Tilburg, Netherlands and teaches New Testament at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He has excavated in Israel and Jordan.