Understanding the Dead Sea scrolls : a reader from the Biblical archaeology review / [print]
edited by Hershel Shanks.
- first edition.
- New York : Random House, (c)1992.
- xxxviii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
Discovering the scrolls The historical context of the scrolls The Sadducean origins of the Dead Sea scroll sect 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 Essene origins : Palestine or Babylonia? / Hershel Shanks -- The temple scroll : the longest Dead Sea scroll The gigantic dimensions of the visionary temple in the temple scroll Intrigue and the scroll Is the temple scroll a sixth book of the Torah, lost for 2,500 years? / Hartmut Stegemann. Harry Thomas Frank -- Frank Moore Cross -- Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Raphael Levy -- Yigael Yadin -- Magen Broshi -- Hershel Shanks -- The text behind the text of the Hebrew Bible ; Light on the Bible from the Dead Sea caves When the sons of God cavorted with the daughters of men The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative Was John the Baptist an Essene? / Otto Betz -- New light on the Pharisees The mystery of the copper scroll How to connect Dead Sea scroll fragments Interview with chief scroll editor John Strugnell Silence, anti-semitism, and the scrolls ; Is the Vatican suppressing the Dead Sea scrolls? / Hershel Shanks. Frank Moore Cross -- Ronald S. Hendel -- James C. VanderKam -- Hershel Shanks -- Lawrence H. Schiffman -- P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. -- Hartmut Stegemann -- Avi Katzman --
A sourcebook of articles by the world's leading Dead Sea Scroll authorities.