TY - BOOK AU - Mazal Holocaust Collection AU - Rogers D.Spotswood Collection AU - Shanks,Hershel TI - Understanding the Dead Sea scrolls: a reader from the Biblical archaeology review SN - 9780679414483 AV - BM487.R724.U534 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Dead Sea scrolls N1 - 2; 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with the daughters of men; Ronald S. Hendel --; The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity; James C. VanderKam --; An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative; Hershel Shanks --; Was John the Baptist an Essene?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; 2 N2 - A sourcebook of articles by the world's leading Dead Sea Scroll authorities UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780679414483.pdf UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0412/91045727.html ER -