RT Article
T1 Was Qumran Abandoned at the End of the First Century BCE?
JF Journal of Biblical literature
VO 135
IS 2
SP 301
OP 320
A1 Mizzi, Dennis 1983-
A1 Magness, Jodi 1956-
LA English
PB Scholar's Press
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1580958516
AB The chronology and development of Qumran in Period I have been the subject of much debate. One of the most influential hypotheses to emerge is Jodi Magness's revision of Roland de Vaux's chronology. In this paper, we revisit a key point of Magness's chronology, namely, her suggestion that Qumran was destroyed and abandoned around 9/8 BCE and reinhabited ca. 4/1 BCE. Our analysis of the published evidence indicates that this conclusion can no longer be supported. Instead, we propose collapsing Periods I and II into one long phase of occupation with various architectural subphases.
K1 Chronology
K1 DE Vaux, Roland
K1 DEBATES & debating
K1 MAGNESS, Jodi
K1 Occupations
K1 Qumran Site (West Bank)
DO 10.15699/jbl.1352.2016.3085