After repeating disproven assertions, Ian asked one new question: who looked arround Ein Gedi before Yizhar Hirschfeld? Answer: Benjamin Mazar, Pesah Bar-Adon, and many other archaeologists. Also, many bedouin, who knew that scrolls and artifacts from several sites along the Dead Sea had meant money in the past. And settlers, hikers, visitors, et al. Stephen Goranson goranson@duke.edu