Revoir la jarre à manuscrits de Qumrân

The fact that the cylindrical jar that contained the Qumran manuscripts is a type of pottery found nowhere else poses a question with no obvious response. The result was to create the designation of an exclusive 'manuscript jar', with the assumption that the jars were manufactured on site. This hypothesis obscured the possibility of some function independent of the scrolls. Despite the characteristic tubular typology that defines it, variations in the shape are quite obvious, along with different compositions of the ware, indicating a dispersion of workshops. Several workshops would in turn suggest a dispersion of communities that owned the manuscripts.