Dr. Gary
Gromacki
Associate Professor of Bible and
Homiletics
Baptist Bible Seminary
Clarks Summit,
Pennsylvania
<ggromacki> at <bbc> dot <edu>
Jodi Magness writes, ""The water was brought by an aqueduct from Wadi Qumran, which flows into the Dead Sea at the foot of the southern end of the marl terrace on which the settlement sits...Branches of the Qumran aqueduct wound through the settlement and supplied all the pools, which could have been filled by a single flash flood. Decantation basins placed in front of each pool or group of pools served as settling tanks, catching the silt carried by the flood waters before it entered the pools. The aqueduct entered the settlement at its northwest corner, where there was a sluice gate to break the rapid flow of the flood waters (L137). From here the water spread out into a broad, shallow decantation basin (L132, L137) adjoined by a small stepped pool (L138)." (Jodi Magness, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002], 54).
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