Understanding the Dead Sea scrolls :
Understanding the Dead Sea scrolls : a reader from the Biblical archaeology review /
edited by Hershel Shanks.
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- New York : Vintage Books, [1993]
- xxxviii, 336 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
"July 1993"--T.p. verso. Originally published: New York : Random House, c1992. "Portions of this work were previously published in Biblical archaeology review and Bible review"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-311) 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. 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An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative / Hershel Shanks --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.
0679744452 (pbk.)
92050614
Dead Sea scrolls.
BM 487 / .U49 1993
296.1/55
"July 1993"--T.p. verso. Originally published: New York : Random House, c1992. "Portions of this work were previously published in Biblical archaeology review and Bible review"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-311) 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. 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.
0679744452 (pbk.)
92050614
Dead Sea scrolls.
BM 487 / .U49 1993
296.1/55