Popper's methods of fact-finding and generalization? As it happens, one can learn about Popper and Qumran at th same time from Rohrhirsch's book Wissenschaftstheorie und Qumran (Freiburg.Goettingen, 1996). It's not a bad effort at rehabilitating de Vaux's work. (Stephen Goranson mentioned this book a bit earlier). Philip R Davies Department of Biblical Studies University of Sheffield