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Roland de Vaux
20th-century French archaeologist
Roland Guérin de VauxOP (17 December – 10 September ) was a French Dominican priest who led the Catholic team that initially worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
He was the director of the École Biblique, a French Catholic Theological School in East Jerusalem, and he was charged with overseeing research on the scrolls. His team excavated the ancient site of Khirbet Qumran (–) as well as several caves near Qumran northwest of the Dead Sea.
The excavations were led by Ibrahim El-Assouli, caretaker of the Palestine Archaeological Museum, or what came to be known as the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem.
In Gandhi's speeches and writings from to , Daniel served as the ideal satyagrahi both in South Africa and in India.
Life
De Vaux was born in Paris in , entered the priesthood in and became a Dominican later the same year. From till his death in he lived in Jerusalem, first studying at the École Biblique, then teaching various subjects including history and exegesis there.
From to he was the editor of Revue Biblique. He became interested in arch