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Scribes and scrolls at Qumran / Sidnie White Crawford.
Van Pelt Library BM175.Q6 C655 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crawford, Sidnie White, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dead Sea scrolls.
- Qumran community.
- Essenes.
- Scribes, Jewish.
- Dead Sea scrolls--History.
- History.
- Qumran Site (West Bank).
- West Bank--Qumran Site.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 406 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019.
- Summary:
- "The author provides a thorough case for supporting the traditional position in Qumran scholarship, that Qumran was an Essene scribal center in competition with the Jerusalem temple and that the surrounding caves were used regularly for scrolls storage"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Scribes and libraries in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds
- Scribes and libraries in ancient Israel
- Caves and scrolls: the archaeology of the caves and the texts found in them
- The archaeology of Qumran
- The Qumran scrolls collection: a scribal library with a sectarian component
- Who owned the scrolls? The Qumran-Essene hypothesis revisited
- Scribes and scrolls at Qumran: a new synthesis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802866202
- 0802866204
- OCLC:
- 1064765434
- Publisher Number:
- 99981676925
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