For her first novel Qumran,[8] Éliette Abécassis is not satisfied with her prior knowledge of the Hebrew world, she pushes her research as far as Israel, Jerusalem, Qumran and also went to the United States in several libraries, archives and places of contemporary Jewish culture in order to obtain as much information as possible. Her research lasted three years[9] and they paid off: Qumran was released in 1996 and immediately achieved immense success;[10] the book being translated into eighteen languages.