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 Aļn 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.
Bruno Callegher is Full Professor on Numismatic and Monetary History at the University of Trieste.
Jean-Baptiste Humbert is Director of the Archeological Laboratory of the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem.
Martin Ebner ist Professor em. für die Exegese des Neuen Testaments an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
Dr. theol. Max Küchler ist em. Professor für Neues Testament und Biblische Umwelt an der Universität Freiburg / Schweiz.
