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Understanding the Dead Sea scrolls : a reader from the Biblical archaeology review / edited by Hershel Shanks. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Random House, (c)1992.Edition: first editionDescription: xxxviii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780679414483
  • 9780679744450
Uniform titles:
  • Biblical archaeology review.
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BM487.R724.U534 1992
  • BM487
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Contents:
Harry Thomas Frank -- The historical context of the scrolls Frank Moore Cross -- The Sadducean origins of the Dead Sea scroll sect Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The people of the Dead Sea scrolls : Essenes or Sadducees? / James C. VanderKam -- "First Dead Sea scroll" found in Egypt fifty years before Qumran discoveries Raphael Levy -- Essene origins : Palestine or Babylonia? / Hershel Shanks -- The temple scroll : the longest Dead Sea scroll Yigael Yadin -- The gigantic dimensions of the visionary temple in the temple scroll Magen Broshi -- Intrigue and the scroll Hershel Shanks -- Is the temple scroll a sixth book of the Torah, lost for 2,500 years? / Hartmut Stegemann.
Frank Moore Cross -- When the sons of God cavorted with the daughters of men Ronald S. Hendel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity James C. VanderKam -- An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative Hershel Shanks -- Was John the Baptist an Essene? / Otto Betz -- New light on the Pharisees Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The mystery of the copper scroll P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. -- How to connect Dead Sea scroll fragments Hartmut Stegemann -- Interview with chief scroll editor John Strugnell Avi Katzman -- Silence, anti-semitism, and the scrolls ; Is the Vatican suppressing the Dead Sea scrolls? / Hershel Shanks.
Subject: A sourcebook of articles by the world's leading Dead Sea Scroll authorities.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Discovering the scrolls Harry Thomas Frank -- The historical context of the scrolls Frank Moore Cross -- The Sadducean origins of the Dead Sea scroll sect Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The people of the Dead Sea scrolls : Essenes or Sadducees? / James C. VanderKam -- "First Dead Sea scroll" found in Egypt fifty years before Qumran discoveries Raphael Levy -- Essene origins : Palestine or Babylonia? / Hershel Shanks -- The temple scroll : the longest Dead Sea scroll Yigael Yadin -- The gigantic dimensions of the visionary temple in the temple scroll Magen Broshi -- Intrigue and the scroll Hershel Shanks -- Is the temple scroll a sixth book of the Torah, lost for 2,500 years? / Hartmut Stegemann.

The text behind the text of the Hebrew Bible ; Light on the Bible from the Dead Sea caves Frank Moore Cross -- When the sons of God cavorted with the daughters of men Ronald S. Hendel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity James C. VanderKam -- An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative Hershel Shanks -- Was John the Baptist an Essene? / Otto Betz -- New light on the Pharisees Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The mystery of the copper scroll P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. -- How to connect Dead Sea scroll fragments Hartmut Stegemann -- Interview with chief scroll editor John Strugnell Avi Katzman -- Silence, anti-semitism, and the scrolls ; Is the Vatican suppressing the Dead Sea scrolls? / Hershel Shanks.

A sourcebook of articles by the world's leading Dead Sea Scroll authorities.

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