Dr. Gary
Gromacki
Associate Professor of Bible and
Homiletics
Baptist Bible Seminary
Clarks Summit,
Pennsylvania
<ggromacki> at <bbc>dot <edu>
Roland de Vaux identified the remains of a room that was possibly used by the scribes at Qumran to copy the DSS. A stairway led to the upper room which was used as a scriptorium for the copying of the DSS. The identification of the scriptorium rests on finds of two kinds: three inkwells (one made of pottery and the other of bronze unearthed in Locus 30, and an earthenware one found in the adjacent Locus 31) and the remains of a structure that fell from the upper floor. This structure is made of mud, rubble, and mortar and is covered with smooth plaster. After reconstruction it looked like a table a little over 5 meters (16.4 feet) long, and approximately 0.5 meters (1.6) feet wide and approximately 0.7 meters (2.3 feet) high. (Magen Broshi, "Scriptorium" in Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by Lawrence Schiffman and James VanderKam. Vol.2. [New York: Oxford University Press, 2000], 831).
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LINKS TO OTHER DSS WEB PAGES BY DR. GARY GROMACKI
Doctrine of God Doctrine of the Bible Doctrine of Man and Sin
Doctrine of Salvation Doctrine of the Community Doctrine of the Messiah
Doctrine of Eschatology Archaeology of Qumran Bibliography on the DSS
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