Stephen, you wrote;-
Of course the three often-published inkwells from de Vaux's Qumran dig are
genuine inkwells.
I do not doubt that they are inkwells but as I replied on the ANE list -
Most of the inkwells were ceramic; there were indubitably pottery
kilns at Qumran. It is not beyond the
David, if, as you propose, Qumran could only be inhabited, early on,
seasonally,
when Magen and Peleg claim it was a 'fortress that would be an oddly
ineffective one, would it not?
If it's easier to make cheap export-pottery elsewhere (as if that has been
shown, where what pottery went) why
