The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years, Volume 2

The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years, Volume 2

Author: James C VanderKam

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999-06-11

Total Pages: 846

ISBN-13: 9004676856

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The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years is being published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the first scrolls at Qumran. The two-volume set contains a comprehensive set of cutting-edge articles on a wide range of topics that are archaeological, historical, literary, sociological, or theological in character. Since the discovery of the first scrolls in 1947 an overwhelming number of studies has been published. Now, half a century later, nearly all scrolls found have been published in critical editions, and scholars can begin to assess the true relevance of the scrolls for the study of the Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and Early Christianity. The contributors to these volumes form an international team of leading specialists in the field. They have written critical surveys of particular aspects of Dead Sea Scrolls research, focusing on significant developments, theories and conclusions, while also indicating directions for future study.


The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty

The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty

Author: Society of Biblical Literature. Qumran Section. Meeting

Publisher: Atlanta : Scholars Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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This veritable "who's who" of international Scrolls research commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls with essays focused on The History of Dead Sea Scrolls Research; The Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Early Judaism and the New Testament; The Damascus Document; and The Future of Dead Sea Scrolls Research."--BOOK JACKET.


The Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Author: Dr. Peter W. Flint

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 142677107X

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In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd literally stumbled upon a cave near the Dead Sea, a settlement now called Qumran, to the east of Jerusalem. This cave, along with the others located nearby, contained jars holding hundreds of scrolls and fragments of scrolls of texts both biblical and nonbiblical—in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The biblical scrolls would be the earliest evidence of the Hebrew Scriptures, or Old Testament, by hundreds of years; and the nonbiblical texts would shed dramatic light on one of the least-known periods of Jewish history—the Second Temple period. This find is, quite simply, the most important archaeological event in two thousand years of biblical studies. The scrolls provide information on nearly every aspect of biblical studies, including the Old Testament, text criticism, Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament, and Christian origins. It took more than fifty years for the scrolls to be completely and officially published, and there is no comparable brief, introductory resource. Core Biblical Studies fulfill the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to key subjects and themes in biblical studies. In the shifting tides of biblical interpretation, these books are designed to help students locate relevant meanings in conversation with the text. As a first step toward substantive and subsequent learning, the series draws on the best scholarship in order to provide foundational concepts and contextualized information on a broad scope of issues, methods, perspectives, and trends.


The Scepter and the Star

The Scepter and the Star

Author: John Joseph Collins

Publisher: Anchor Bible

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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"In The Scepter and the Star, John J. Collins turns to the Dead Sea Scrolls to shed new light on the origins, meaning, and relevance of messianic expectations. The first Christians were Jews who believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the messiah - the Christ; Christians could be called "followers of the messiah." Other Jews did not accept this claim, and so the Christians went their own way and grew into a separate religion. The disagreement about the identity of the messiah is the root difference between Judaism and Christianity." "The recent disclosure of the full corpus of the Dead Sea Scrolls now makes it possible to see this disagreement in a fuller context than ever before. The most stunning revelation of the new evidence is the diversity of messianic expectations in Judaism around the beginning of the common era. The Hebrew word "messiah" means "anointed one." According to the scrolls, the messiah could be a warrior king in the line of David, a priest, a prophet, or a teacher. He could be called "the Son of God." Jesus of Nazareth fitted the expectations some Jews of the time had of the messiah. The majority of Jews, however, had quite different expectations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


The Scrolls from the Dead Sea

The Scrolls from the Dead Sea

Author: Edmund Wilson

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1955

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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The story of a young Bedouin goatherd who found some dark oblong objects, which turned out to be a series of scrolls.


Out of the Cave

Out of the Cave

Author: Edna Ullmann-Margalit

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780674022232

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Looking at the Essene connection, the archaeology of Qumran, and the sectarian nature of the scrolls community, this work explores the different arenas, and ways, in which contesting theories of the scrolls do battle. In this context, it finds examples that exercise philosophers of science as well as the general public.