Buchpaket Qumran 2023 - Coins and Settlement

Khirbet Qumran and Ain-Feshkha III A:For 60 years Qumran research has been focused on epigraphy, exegesis, and the historical sources of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now the time has come to provide researchers with a complete documentation.
Following the Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951-1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956-1958):The Qumran coins are worthy of a novel. Now they are finally published and provide the possibility to suggest that Qumran was a very open centre for trade and transactions, at least from finally the end of the second century BC until the destruction of the site in 70/72 CE.This documentation provides a new reasoning on effective data - not on assumptions.

Summary

Khirbet Qumran and Ain-Feshkha III A:
For 60 years Qumran research has been focused on epigraphy, exegesis, and the historical sources of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now the time has come to provide researchers with a complete documentation.

Following the Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951–1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956–1958):
The Qumran coins are worthy of a novel. Now they are finally published and provide the possibility to suggest that Qumran was a very open centre for trade and transactions, at least from finally the end of the second century BC until the destruction of the site in 70/72 CE.
This documentation provides a new reasoning on effective data – not on assumptions.

Foreword

Khirbet Qumran and Ain-Feshkha III A:
For 60 years Qumran research has been focused on epigraphy, exegesis, and the historical sources of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now the time has come to provide researchers with a complete documentation.

Following the Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951–1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956–1958):
The Qumran coins are worthy of a novel. Now they are finally published and provide the possibility to suggest that Qumran was a very open centre for trade and transactions, at least from finally the end of the second century BC until the destruction of the site in 70/72 CE.
This documentation provides a new reasoning on effective data – not on assumptions.

Product details

• Authors: Bruno Callegher, Jolanta Mlynarczyk, Monchot
• Assisted by: Martin Ebner (Editor), Jean-Baptiste Humbert (Editor), Max Küchler (Editor), Peter Lampe (Editor), Heidrun E. Mader (Editor), David E. Orton (Editor), Stefan Schreiber (Editor), Gerd Theißen (Editor), Jürgen Zangenberg (Editor), David E. Orton (Translation), Martin Ebner (Editor of the series), Max Küchler (Editor of the series), Peter Lampe (Editor of the series), Heidrun E. Mader (Editor of the series), Stefan Schreiber (Editor of the series), Gerd Theißen (Editor of the series), Jürgen Zangenberg (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2024
• EAN: 9783525503706
• ISBN: 978-3-525-50370-6
• No. of pages: 888
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 57 mm x 325 mm
• Weight: 4358 g
• Illustrations: with 427 coloured Coins, 131 Images, 185 Fig., 113 planches and 11 Tab.
• Series: Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus, Series Archaeologica (NTOA.SA); Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus. Series Archaeologica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Qumran, The Dead Sea, Qumran coins