02600pam a2200301 a 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310100017000720200022000890400018001110500022001290820017001512450117001682500026002852600039003113000038003505000029003885000058004175000115004755040066005905050014006565051462006706300022021327000021021547300033021758560090022081562534AUA.120151116150824.0920902r19931992nyua b 001 0 eng  a 92050614  a0679744452 (pbk.) aDLCcDLCdDLC10aBM 487b.U49 199300a296.1/5522000aUnderstanding the Dead Sea scrolls :ba reader from the Biblical archaeology review /cedited by Hershel Shanks. a1st Vintage Books ed. aNew York :bVintage Books,c[1993] axxxviii, 336 p. :bill. ;c21 cm. a"July 1993"--T.p. verso. aOriginally published: New York : Random House, c1992. a"Portions of this work were previously published in Biblical archaeology review and Bible review"--T.p. verso. aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-311) and index. aContents: aDiscovering 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with the daughters of men / Ronald S. Hendel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity / James C. VanderKam -- An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative / Hershel Shanks -- Was John the Baptist an Essene?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.00aDead Sea scrolls.1 aShanks, Hershel.0 aBiblical archaeology review.423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/92050614.html