Education
1985-1988 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1993, both in the Jewish History Department. While working on his Doctor of Philosophy he started teaching in the department of Land of Israel Studies and Archeology at Bar-Ilan University.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls & Related Literature)
( The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State is the fir...)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State is the first book dedicated solely to the question of how we can learn political history from the Qumran scrolls. This English edition of Hanan Eshel's 2004 Hebrew publication updates that earlier work with more recent scholarship, now also including English-language resources.
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Hanan Eshel
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Career
With Magen Broshi he discovered a number of residential caves in the near vicinity of Qumran and co-published a number of historically significant documents from Qumran. Eshel received his academic training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completing his Bachelor of Arts at the Institute of Archaeology in 1984, his Master of Arts That was in 1990. He would remain at Bar-Ilan for the next twenty years, receiving an appointment as an associate professor in 1999 and serving as head of the department between 2002 and 2004.
As an archaeologist Eshel worked in 1986 and 1993 at a number of caves in the Judaean Desert where refugees hid from the Romans during the Bar Kokhba revolt.
In one cave near Jericho he found 19 business documents in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. From 1995 to 1999 he co-directed five seasons at Tel Yatir near Arad.
Eshel carried out three seasons at Qumran with Magen Broshi in 1996, 2001 and 2002, discovering amongst other things the remains of a series of caves inhabited at the time of use of the Qumran settlement. In 2004 Eshel was shown fragments of ancient Hebrew texts reportedly being offered on the black market.
This was apparently an attempt by the holder to estimate the worth of his find.
The following year Eshel found that the text had not been sold and so with money from Bar-Ilan University he purchased the material and turned it over to the Israel Antiquities Authority. He believed the fragments, from the book of Leviticus, originated in one of the caves in Nahal Arugot used as refuges from the Romans in the second century.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls & Related Literature)
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls & Related Literature)
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Israel