Biblical Archaeology Review

Complete documentation and references for this article will be found in my book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World (New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989; slightly revised paperback edition, 1991).

De Vaux, Archaeology, p. 34.

P. Donceel-Voûte, “Coenaculum,” pp. 77–78.

Pauline Donceel-Voûte, “Coenaculum—La salle á l’ètage du locus 30 á Khirbet Qumrân sur la Mer Morte,” Res Orientales 4 (1992), p. 65, illus. 7.

K.W. Clark, “The Posture of the Ancient Scribe,” BA 26:2 (1963), pp. 63–72.

Godfrey R. Driver, “Myths of Qumran,” Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society 6 (1969), p. 26.

Henry E. Del Medico, The Riddle of the Scrolls, trans. H. Gardner (London: 1958), p. 85.

Pauline Donceel-Voûte, in a transcript of the BBC Horizon television series Resurrecting the Dead Sea Scrolls, Teresa Hunt, producer. Text adapted from program transmitted March 22, 1993, pp. 22–23.