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Shmuel Safrai, “Spoken Languages in the Time of Jesus,” Jerusalem Perspective 4.1 (Jan./Feb. 1991). pp. 5–6, 13; Jerome A. Lund, “The Language of Jesus,” Mishkan 17–18 (1993), pp. 144–145.

Golb seems unaware of the fact that Qumran is located at a dead end. He nowhere mentions Ras Feshka. Because there was access to Jerusalem from Qumran, Golb concludes that “the site was thus not an isolated locale of desert monks. On the contrary, it emerges as a fortress of strategic importance in the Judean wilderness” (Golb, “Who Hid the Scrolls?” p. 68).

Amihai Mazar, “On the Discoveries at Giloh,” Israel Exploration Journal 40 (1990), pp. 77–101.

Norman Golb, “The Problem of the Origin and Identification of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124 (1980), pp. 1–24; and Golb, “Who Hid the Scrolls?” BA 48 (1985), pp. 68–82.

Philip R. Davies, “How Not to Do Archaeology: The Story of Qumran,” Biblical Archaeologist (BA) 51 (1988), p. 203.

All quotes from de Vaux in this article are from his Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls, rev. ed. (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973).

Fritz, ZDPV 93 (1977), pp. 30–45.

See also Herzog, “Israelite City Planning,” Expedition 20/4 (1978), pp. 38–43.

Ze‘ev Herzog et al., “The Israelite Fortress at Arad,” BASOR 254 (1984), pp. 1–34.