The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three volumes, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity.
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The recovery of 800 documents in caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These volumes demonstrate how the scrolls have revolutionised our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity.
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  • Introduction: The Dead Sea Scrolls:
  • Their Discovery and Challenge to Biblical Studies, James H. Charlesworth
  • Chapter 1: The Impact of the Judean Desert Scrolls on Issues of Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible, James A. Sanders
  • Chapter 2: Qumran and the Enoch Groups:
  • Revisiting the Enochic-Essene Hypothesis, Gabriele Boccaccini
  • Chapter 3: The Biblical Scrolls from Qumran and the Canonical Text, Frank Moore Cross
  • Chapter 4: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Scriptural Texts, Eugene C. Ulrich
  • Chapter 5: The Formation and Re-Formation of Daniel in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Loren T. Stuckenbruck
  • Chapter 6: The Rewritten Bible at Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford
  • Chapter 7: Qumran and a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible, Ronald S. Hendel
  • Chapter 8: 4QSama (= 4Q51), the Canon, and the Community of Lay Readers, Donald W. Parry
  • Chapter 9: Three Sobriquets, Their Meaning and Function: The Wicked Priest, Synagogue of Satan, and the Woman Jezebel, H?Ñkan Bengtsson
  • Chapter 10: The Biblical and Qumranic Concept of War, Philip R. Davies
  • Chapter 11: Psalms and Psalters in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Peter W. Flint
  • Chapter 12: The Importance of Isaiah at Qumran, J. J. M. Roberts
  • Chapter 13: Biblical Interpretation at Qumran, George J. Brooke
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    Product details

    ISBN
    9781932792751
    Published
    2006-03-30
    Publisher
    Baylor University Press
    Weight
    544 gr
    Height
    223 mm
    Width
    160 mm
    Thickness
    25 mm
    Age
    G, 01
    Language
    Product language
    Engelsk
    Format
    Product format
    Heftet
    Number of pages
    342

    Biographical note

    J.H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Editor and Director of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project.