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Papyrus Anastasi, 6:54–56, in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd edition, ed. James B. Pritchard (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ., 1969), p. 259. A possible 15th-century B.C.E. reference may be found in a list of Thutmose III. See The Anchor Bible Dictionary, under “Edom” (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992).

Josephus, Jewish War 2.8.13.

Most recently and notably, Norman Golb, “The Major Anomalies,” in Qumran Chronicles 2/3 (June 1993), p. 167.

Contra Frank Moore Cross, The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980), p. 78n.

Solomon H. Steckoll, “Preliminary Excavation Report in the Qumran Cemetery,” Revue de Qumran 23 (1968), pp. 327–328, with reference to Mishnah Baba Bathra 2.9.

George J. Brooke, “The Temple Scroll and the Archaeology of Qumran,‘Ain Feshkha and Masada,” Revue de Qumran 49–52 (1988), pp. 230–231.

Stegemann, p. 79.

J.B. Poole and R. Reed, “The ‘Tannery’ at Ain Feshkha,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 93 (1961), pp. 114–123.

Stegemann, Die Essener, pp. 77–82.