Old Caves and Young Caves : Two Qumran Collections?

Stoekl Ben Ezra, Daniel

Publication date

October 2005

Publisher

HAL CCSD

Abstract

Abbreviated version as uploaded on www.geocities.com/shunrata on Oct 20, 2005. Full version to be published in DSD 14/3 (November 2007)A statistical analysis of the average age of the scrolls of each of the Qumran caves proves that the manuscripts from caves 1 and 4 cannot come from the same collection as those found in caves 2,3,5,6 and 11 (p<0.0001 !), at least not as random samples. The scenario that all or most caves served as emergency hiding places for the Qumran collection around 68 CE has therefore to be discarded or fundamentally modified. Most probably, the "old" caves 1 and 4 represent the Qumran collection at an earlier point in history than the "young" caves 2,3,5,6,11

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