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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Princeton :
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2012.
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| Series: | Lives of great religious books.
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Table of Contents:
- The Discovery of the Scrolls
- The Essenes
- The Site of Qumran
- The Scrolls and Christianity
- The Scrolls and Judaism
- The Scrolls and the Bible
- The Battle for the Scrolls
- Appendix. Personalities in the Discovery and Subsequent Controversies.