The Dead Sea Scrolls : : A Biography / / John J. Collins.
Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Je...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Discovery of the Scrolls
- Chapter 2. The Essenes
- Chapter 3. The Site of Qumran
- Chapter 4. The Scrolls and Christianity
- Chapter 5. The Scrolls and Judaism
- Chapter 6. The Scrolls and the Bible
- Chapter 7. The Battle for the Scrolls
- Appendix. Personalities in the Discovery and Subsequent Controversies
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Indexes