Obituary for Hanan Eshel (Jewish Ideas Daily)

AN OBITUARY FOR HANAN ESHEL in Jewish Ideas Daily:

What the Archaeologist Knew

The ghosts of Qumran have conjured up two distinct communities of modern scholars: the archaeologists who dig in the caves and discover the libraries, and the textual scholars who read and interpret the Dead Sea Scrolls in cavernous libraries of their own. Not many have been able to move with assurance among both. One of them was Hanan Eshel, who died earlier this month at age fifty-two.

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Earlier tributes here.