• By Last Name
• By Title

• ICOS 23 Program

The epigraphic corpus of Qumran is known completely since the publication of André Lemaire in Khirbet Qumrân et ‘Aïn Feshkha, II, by Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jan Gunneweg in 2003. The publication of all the inscriptions in Khirbet Qumran, caves and ‘Aïn Feshkha have shown something strange: Qumran residents might be more hellenized than the usual picture given by Qumran scrolls. Most of the inscriptions are personal names (or nicknames). Some of them have been written by members of the Qumran community. We propose to compare these inscriptions with contemporaneous epigraphic
corpora discovered around the Dead Sea and with personal names noted in the Qumran nonliterary texts.