TY  - BOOK
AU  - VanderKam,James C
TI  - The Dead Sea scrolls today
SN  - 9780802864352
AV  - BM487.V234.D433 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Criticism, Textual
KW  - Relation to the New Testament
KW  - Qumran community
KW  - Essenes
N1  - 2; 1. Discoveries. --; Introduction --; The Qumran discoveries: The first cave --; The seven original scrolls --; The cave itself --; The other caves --; The ruins of Qumran --; The de Vaux excavations and interpretations --; The buildings --; The cemeteries --; Subsequent studies and interpretations --; The buildings --; The cemeteries --; Methods for dating the discoveries --; Methods for dating the texts --; Paleography --; Accelerator mass spectrometry --; Internal allusions --; Methods for dating the other archeological remains --; Carbon --; Pottery --; Coins; 2. Survey of the manuscripts. --; Biblical texts: Biblical scrolls --; Targums --; Tefillin and Mezuzot --; Apocryphal and pseudepigraphal texts:  Apocrypha --; Tobit --; Sirach (Ecclesiasticus or the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira) --; Letter of Jeremiah (= Baruch 6) --; Psalm 151 --; Pseudepigrapha --; Enoch or 1 Enoch --; Jubilees --; Testaments of the twelve patriarchs --; New pseudepigrapha --; Other texts: Commentaries on biblical material --; Continuous commentaries --; The Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab) --; The Nahum Commentary (4Q169) --; The Commentary on Psalms (4Q171,173) --; Thematic commentaries --; Florilegium (4Q174) --; The Testimonia (4Q175) --; The Melchizedek text (11QMelch) --; A commentary on Genesis (4Q252) --; Paraphrases --; Legal texts: The Damascus document --; The rule of the community --; The Temple scroll --; Some of the works of the Torah (4QMMT) --; Writings for worship: The cycle of worship --; Liturgical texts --; Calendrical texts --; Poetic compositions --; The thanksgiving hymns --; Other poems --; Eschatological works: The war rule --; Texts about the New Jerusalem --; Wisdom texts: 4Q184 Wiles of the wicked woman --; 4Q185 Sapiential work --; Instruction --; The copper scroll (3Q15) --; Documentary texts; 3. The identification of the Qumran Group. --; The case for the Essene hypothesis --; The evidence from Pliny the Elder --; the contents of the Qumran texts and Essene beliefs and practices --; Theology: Determinism --; The afterlife --; Practice: Nonuse of oil --; Property --; The pure meal --; Bodily functions --; Spitting --; Problems with the Essene hypothesis --; Entry procedures --; Marriage --; The name Essene --; Other theories: Sadducees --; Jerusalem origins; 4. The Qumran Essenes. --; A sketch of the Qumran group's history --; The pre-Qumran period --; The Qumran period: Phase I --; Phase II --; A sketch of Qumran thought and practice: Predeterminism --; The two ways --; The community of the New Covenant --; Scriptural interpretation: The latter days --; Special laws --; The Universe --; Worship --; The end and the messiahs --; The Qumran Essenes and their place in Judaism; 5. The scrolls and the Old Testament. --; The test of the Hebrew Bible; Old Testament --; The period of the Hebrew Bible; Old Testament --; The pre-Qumran textual witnesses: The Masoretic text --; The Septuagint --; The Samaritan Pentateuch --; Qumran contributions: The great Isaiah scroll --; Qumran agreements with the Septuagint against the Masoretic text: Minor examples --; Major Examples: Jeremiah --; Samuel --; An unusual case --; Theories about textual development: A theory of local texts --; A theory of textual plurality and variety --; successive literary editions --; New information about the history of some texts: The Book of Psalms --; Daniel 4 --; A canon of scripture --; Evidence outside Qumran: The prologue to Sirach (the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira) --; 2 Macc 2:13-15 --; Philo, On the contemplative life 25 --; Luke 24:44 --; Matt 23:35 --; 4 Ezra 14:23-48 --; Josephus, Against Apion 1.37-43 --; Evidence from Qumran: Criteria --; Authoritative books: Books quoted as authorities --; Other authoritative books: Jubilees --; 1 Enoch --; The Temple scroll; 6. The scrolls and the New Testament. --; Introduction --; Similarities between the scrolls and the New Testament --; Language and text: Language --; The many --; The guardian --; Other examples --; Text: New Testament papyri in cave 7? --; Qumran words and phrases in the New Testament --; The Sermon on the Mount --; Characters: John the Baptist --; Others --; Practices: Shared property --; The meal --; Calendar --; Eschatology: Messianism --; Biblical interpretation --; Teachings --; Conclusions; 7. Controversies about the Dead Sea Scrolls. --; Editing and publishing the scrolls --; Events since 1989; 2
N2  - "The Dead Sea Scrolls Today" is the second edition update to the study of the Dead Seas Scrolls, manuscripts which provide a decidedly different and insightful view of the Bible
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