Toilets at Qumran, the Essenes, and the Scrolls: New anthropological data and old theories

Revue de Qumran

Volumn 88, Issue , 2006, Pages 631-640

  Zias, Joe E ^a   Tabor, James D ^b   Harter Lailheugue, Stephanie ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

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