| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxviii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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with the daughters of men / Ronald S. Hendel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity / James C. VanderKam -- An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative / Hershel Shanks -- Was John the Baptist an Essene?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. |
| Subject |
Dead Sea scrolls.
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| Added Author |
Shanks, Hershel.
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| Added Title |
Biblical archaeology review.
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| ISBN |
0679414487: $22.00 |
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