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See Hartmut Stegemann, Die Essener, Qumran, Johannes der taüfer und Jesus (Freiburg: Herder, 1993), pp. 53–85.

Eric M. Meyers, James F. Strange and Carol L. Meyers, “Preliminary Report on the 1980 Excavations at en-Nabratein, Israel,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 244 (1981), p. 21.

N.I. Khairy, “Inkwells of the Roman Period from Jordan,”Levant 12 (1980), pp. 155–163.

A picture of this inkwell appears in Solomon H. Steckoll, “An Inkwell From Qumran,” Mada’ 13 (1969), pp. 260–261. See also Steckoll, “Investigations of the Inks Used in Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Nature 220 (1968), pp. 91–98; and Y. Olenik, “Early Roman-Period Pottery Inkwells from Eretz-Yisrael,” Israel-People and Land 1 (1983–1984), pp. 55–66 (in Hebrew, with an English translation on pp. 10–11).

David Amit, “Ritual Baths (Miqva’ot) From the Second Temple Period in the Hebron Mountains,” Judea and Samaria Research Studies 3 (1993), pp. 157–189 (in Hebrew).

Michael Rostovtzeff, A Large Estate in Egypt in the Third Century B.C. (New York: Arno Press, 1979), p. 103.

See Donceel and Donceel-Voûte, “Archaeology of Qumran,” pp. 5–14; see also Donceel, “Qumran,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, ed. Eric M. Meyers (New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), vol. 4, p. 395.

Norman Golb, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995).

For an English translation, see Yoram Tsafrir, “The Desert Fortresses of Judea in the Second Temple Period,” The Jerusalem Cathedra 2 (1982), pp. 120–145.