Understanding the Dead Sea scrolls:a reader from the Biblical archaeology review
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Random House,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c1992. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Item Description: | Biblical archaeology review. |
Carrier Form: | xxxviii, 336 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: | 0679414487 |
Index Number: | B929 |
CLC: |
B929 B979 B985 |
Call Number: | B929/U558 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 scr |