03075pam a2200361 a 4500 1562534 AUA.1 20151116150824.0 920902r19931992nyua b 001 0 eng 92050614 0679744452 (pbk.) DLC DLC DLC BM 487 .U49 1993 296.1/55 20 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with the daughters of men / Ronald S. Hendel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity / James C. VanderKam -- An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative / Hershel Shanks -- Was John the Baptist an Essene?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. Dead Sea scrolls. 31130 Shanks, Hershel. 31131 Biblical archaeology review. 31132 Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/92050614.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BOOK BM 487 .U49 1993 9027 9027 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2013-01-31 Donation, Theological Book Network 13.00 AUA012435 3 BM 487 .U49 1993 AUA012435 2016-11-15 00:00:00 2016-11-11 13.00 2013-01-31 BOOK