Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
Archaeological Evidence
Excavation Websites
The Orion Virtual Qumran Tour - not an excavation website precisely, but rather a tour of the compound that was excavated in the 1940s-1950s. The tour guide is archaeologist Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Renewed Excavations at Qumran - a brief description of the renewed excavations of the Qumran site in 1993, hosted by the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Excavation Reports
Broshi, Magen and Hanan Eshel. "Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Contention of Twelve Theories." In Religion and Society in Roman Palestine: Old Questions, New Approaches (ed. Douglas R. Edwards; New York: Routledge, 2004) 162-9.
--------. "Three Seasons of Excavation at Qumran." Journal of Roman Archaeology 17:1 (2004) 321-32.
Humbert, Jean-Baptiste and Alain Chambon, eds. The Excavations of Khirbet Qumran and Ain Feshkha: Synthesis of Roland de Vaux's Field Notes, trans. Stephen J. Pfann, NTOA Series Archaeologica 18. Fribourg: University Press, 2003.
Magen, Yizhak and Yuval Peleg. "Back to Qumran: Ten Years of Excavation and Research, 1993–2004." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 55-113.
Vaux, Roland de. Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls. London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1973.
Bar-Nathan, Rachel. "Qumran and the Hasmonaean and Herodian Winter Palaces of Jericho: The Implication of the Pottery Finds for the Interpretation of the Settlement at Qumran." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 263-77.
Bartlett, John R. "The Archaeology of Qumran." In Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation (ed. John R. Bartlett; London: Routledge, 1997) 67-94.
Branham, Joan. "Hedging the Holy at Qumran: Walls as Symbolic Devices." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 117-31.
Broshi, Magen. Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls, Library of Second Temple Studies. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
Broshi, Magen and Hanan Eshel. "Was There Agriculture at Qumran?" In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 249-52.
Cargill, Robert R. Qumran through (Real) Time: A Virtual Reconstruction of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Bible in Technology 1. Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias, 2009.
Davies, Philip R. Qumran, Cities of the Biblical World. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1983; original, 1982.
Doudna, Gregory L. "The Legacy of an Error in Archaeological Interpretation. The Dating of the Qumran Cave Scroll Deposits." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 147-57.
Galor, Katharina and Jürgen Zangenberg. "Introduction: Qumran Archaeology in Search of a Consensus." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 1-15.
Hirschfeld, Yizhar. "Qumran in the Second Temple Period: A Reassessment." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 223-39.
--------. Qumran in Context: Reassessing the Archaeological Evidence. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2004.
Humbert, Jean-Baptiste. "Some Remarks on the Archaeology of Qumran." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 19-39.
Magness, Jodi. The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2002.
--------. Debating Qumran: Collected Essays on Its Archaeology, Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 4. Leuven: Peeters, 2004.
Murphy, Catherine M. "Archaeological Evidence of Wealth from the Qumran Site and Vicinity," "Appendix E: Archaeological Site Plan of the Qumran Compound c.31 B.C.E.," and "Appendix H, The Dead Sea Region." In Wealth in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Qumran Community (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 40; Boston: Brill, 2002) 293-360, 524-5, 541, Plate I.
Petersen, Allan Rosengren. "The Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran." In Qumran between the Old and New Testaments (ed. Frederick H. Cryer and Thomas L. Thompson; JSOTSup 290/Copenhagen International Seminar 6; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 249-60.
Pfann, Stephen J. "A Table Prepared in the Wilderness: Pantries and Tables, Pure Food and Sacred Space at Qumran." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 159-78.
Röhrer-Ertl, Olav. "Facts and Results Based on Skeletal Remains from Qumran Found in the Collectio Kurth—A Study in Methodology." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 181-93.
Shanks, Hershel. Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review. New York: Random House, 1992.
Sheridan, Susan G. and Jaime Ullinger. "A Reconsideration of the Human Remains in the French Collection from Qumran." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 195-212.
Strange, James F. "The 1996 Excavations at Qumran and the Context of the New Hebrew Ostracon." In Qumran, The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Brown University, November 17–19, 2002 (ed. Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jürgen Zangenberg; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57; Boston: Brill, 2006) 41-54.
Wise, Michael O., Norman Golb, John J. Collins and Dennis G. Pardee, eds. Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 722. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1994.
Zias, Joseph. "The Cemeteries of Qumran and Celibacy: Confusion Laid to Rest?" In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 444-71; originally published in ''Dead Sea Discoveries'' 7 (2000) 220-253.
García Martínez, Florentino. The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, trans. Wilfred G. E. Watson, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996; Spanish original, Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 1992.
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies and its Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts at Brigham Young University. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Electronic Reference Library 2. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 1999.
Sussmann, Ayala and Ruth Peled, eds. Scrolls from the Dead Sea: An Exhibition of Scrolls and Archeological Artifacts from the Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority. New York: G. Braziller by arrangement with the Library of Congress, 1993.
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
Black, Matthew. The Scrolls and Christian Origins: Studies in the Jewish Background of the New Testament, Brown Judaic Studies 48. Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1983; original, 1961.
Brooke, George J. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
Evans, Craig A. "Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4." In Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. Craig A. Evans and Peter W. Flint; Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1997) 91-100.
Fitzmyer, Joseph A., S.J. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2000.
Flusser, David. "The Sons of Light in Jesus' Teaching and in the New Testament." In Biblical Archaeology Today: Proceedings of the International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, April 1984 (ed. Janet Amitai; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society/Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Cooperation with the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1985) 427-8.
Puech, Émile. "Jesus and Resurrection Faith in Light of Jewish Texts." In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 639-59.
Rietz, Henry W. Morisada. "Reflections on Jesus' Eschatology in Light of Qumran." In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 186-205.
Stegemann, Hartmut. "Some Aspects of Eschatology in Texts from the Qumran Community and in the Teachings of Jesus." In Biblical Archaeology Today: Proceedings of the International Congress on Biblical Archaeology, Jerusalem, April 1984 (ed. Janet Amitai; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society/Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Cooperation with the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1985) 408-426.
Stendahl, Krister, ed. The Scrolls and the New Testament, Christian Origins Library. New York: Harper, 1957.
Ulfgard, Håkan. "The Teacher of Righteousness, the History of the Qumran Community, and Our Understanding of the Jesus Movement: Texts, Theories and Trajectories." In Qumran between the Old and New Testaments (ed. Frederick H. Cryer and Thomas L. Thompson; JSOTSup 290/Copenhagen International Seminar 6; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 310-46.
VanderKam, James C. "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament." Biblical Archaeology Review 41:2 (2015) 42-53, 78-9.
VanderKam, James C. and Peter Flint. "Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Gospels and Qumran." In The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002) 321-45.
