Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Edmund Wilson ; with a foreword by Leon Edel and a new introduction by Raphael Israeli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Contributor:

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Standardized Title:

Israel

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Bible. Genesis.

Travel.

Israel--Description and travel.

Israel.

Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972--Travel--Israel.

Wilson, Edmund.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 420 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2012]

Summary:

In this reprint from 1978, the late Wilson, a literary critic and social commentator, presents a journalistic, rather than scholarly, report for general readers on the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wilson heard of their discovery and voyaged to the area to document it and their folklore, history, political and religious issues, and the controversies that arose between scholars. The volume was first serialized by The New Yorker in the 1950s, published in 1955, then updated for the 1978 edition. This edition has a new introduction by Raphael Israeli, who details the ongoing academic controversy over the Dead Sea Scrolls. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Israel, 1954

I On First Reading Genesis 3

II Éretz Yisraél 43

Samaritan Passover 43

The Guardians of the City 51

The Fiction of S. Y. Agnón 59

Theocracy 68

Tanách 72

Jerusalem the Golden 84

Degániya 99

Éretz Yisraél 104

The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969

The Scrolls from the Dead Sea, 1955

I The Metropolitan Samuel 113

II The Essene Order 132

III The Monastery 152

IV The Teacher of Righteousness 165

V What Would Renan Have Said? 188

VI General Yadin 224

1955-1967

Introduction 235

I Polemics 237

II The Genesis Apocryphon 253

III The Psalms 257

IV The Nahum Pesher 263

V John Allegro 272

VI The Copper Scrolls 280

VII The Texts 286

VIII The Testimonia 292

IX The Epistle to the Hebrews 299

X Masada 306

XI Dubious Documents 323

"On the Eve," 1967

I Tattoo 333

II Palestinians 338

III The Two Jerusalems 341

IV The New Israel National Museum 349

V Conversations with Yadin and Flusser 354

VI Departure 366.

Notes:

Includes index.

Related Work:

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972. Dead Sea scrolls, 1947-1969.

ISBN:

1412842484

9781412842488

OCLC:

722843234

Publisher Number:

99946267237