The Dead Sea scrolls / Peter W. Flint.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flint, Peter W., author.

Series:

Core biblical studies.

Core biblical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

Qumran community.

Dead Sea scrolls--Relation to the Old Testament.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages).

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Abingdon Press, [2013]

Summary:

"In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd 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 by hundreds of years; and the nonbiblical texts would shed dramatic light on one of the least-known periods of Jewish history. This find is the most important archaeological event in two thousand years of biblical studies."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

The discovery of the Scrolls in the Judean Desert

Archaeology of the Qumran site: the caves, buildings, and cemeteries

Dating the scrolls found at Qumran

The Bible before the scrolls

The Biblical scrolls

The Dead Sea scrolls and the Biblical text

The scrolls, the Apocrypha, and the Pseudepigrapha

The shape and contents of the Scriptures used at Qumran

The Nonbiblical scrolls

The movement associated with Qumran : Not Pharisees or Sadducees, but Essenes

Religious thought and practice reflected in the Qumran scrolls

The New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4267-7107-X

OCLC:

917551360