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Was the Central Negev abandoned by its inhabitants after the Roman annexation of the Nabatean kingdom in the early 2nd century A.D.? Recent excavations along an ancient route now appear to have settled this thorny and much-debated question.
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Rudolph Cohen (1982) studied this question.
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