a reader from the Biblical archaeology review Shanks, Hershel. text bibliography nyu New York Vintage Books [1993] 1993 1st Vintage Books ed. monographic eng

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xxxviii, 336 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. 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with the daughters of men / Ronald S. Hendel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity / James C. VanderKam -- An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative / Hershel Shanks -- Was John the Baptist an Essene?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. edited by Hershel Shanks. "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. BM 487 .U49 1993 296.1/55 0679744452 (pbk.) 92050614 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/92050614.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/92050614.html DLC 920902 20151116150824.0 1562534