Proceedings of an international conference entirely dedicated to the caves of Qumran. Archaeologists and manuscript scholars perform a typological and a distributional analysis on the contents of the caves of the Qumran area and the other finds in the Dead Sea region.

Marcello Fidanzio, Ph.D. (2013), is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology of Lugano. He is also a research associate at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française of Jerusalem, where he is entrusted with the final report of the excavations of the caves of Qumran directed by Roland de Vaux.