title: Reading for History in the Damascus Document: A Methodological Study (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)
author:  Maxine L Grossman 
description: <b>Maxine L. Grossman</b> Ph.D. (2000), Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, is Visiting Assistant Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. Most recent publication is <i>Reading 4QMMT: Genre and History</i>, RevQ 77/20 (2001).
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  WATERSHED OF THE BA’ALBAK PLAIN, ON THE ‘CEDAR BLOCK,’ AND ON THE
  
  
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  [CHAPTER II. PRELIMINARY TOUR OF THE JEBEL DURUZ
  
  
  HAURAN — EXPLORATION OF THE UMM NIRAN CAVE AND THE TULUL EL SAFA — THE
  
  
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  * CHAPTER I. CARTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER NOTES ON THE 
  
  
  WATERSHED OF THE BA’ALBAK PLAIN, ON THE ‘CEDAR BLOCK,’ AND ON THE
  
  
  NORTHERN LIBANUS.
  
  
  * [PART II. FROM THE CEDARS OF LEBANON TO ZAHLAH TOWN.
  
  
  
  
  
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