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Why no discussion of the secrecy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.41.252 ( talk) 18:33, 18 June 2009 (UTC) reply

Surely there should be some discussion of the delays and alleged secretiveness in the treatment of the Scrolls? Grover cleveland ( talk) 01:57, 17 September 2009 (UTC) reply

Re "De Vaux chose not to publish a definitive archaeological report for his work at Qumran despite worldwide interest, though he left behind him copious notes, which have been synthesized into a single volume and published in 2003.", can you give the book and author names? Ofrahod ( talk) 09:21, 15 June 2011 (UTC) reply

The following comment was a HTML comment following the lede. I have moved it here for better exposure, and removed it from the article.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 20:04, 25 February 2012 (UTC) reply

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