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Author: Norman Golb Publisher: eBookIt.com ISBN: 1456608428 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 439
Book Description
Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online. Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy. Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls cannot be the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as various earlier scholars had claimed, but are in all likelihood the remains of libraries of various Jewish groups, smuggled out of Jerusalem and hidden in desert caves during the Roman siege of 70 A. D. Contributing to the enduring debate sparked by the book's original publication in 1995, this digital edition contains additional material reporting on new developments that have led a series of major Israeli and European archaeologists to support Golb's basic conclusions. In its second half, the book offers a detailed analysis of the workings of the scholarly monopoly that controlled the Scrolls for many years, and discusses Golb's role in the struggle to make the texts available to the public. Pleading for an end to academic politics and a commitment to the search for truth in scrolls scholarship, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? sets a new standard for studies in intertestamental history "This book is 'must reading'.... It demonstrates how a particular interpretation of an ancient site and particular readings of ancient documents became a straitjacket for subsequent discussion of what is arguably the most widely publicized set of discoveries in the history of biblical archaeology...." Dr. Gregory T. Armstrong, 'Church History' Golb "gives us much more than just a fresh and convincing interpretation of the origin and significance of the Qumran Scrolls. His book is also... a fascinating case-study of how an idee fixe, for which there is no real historical justification, has for over 40 years dominated an elite coterie of scholars controlling the Scrolls...." Daniel O'Hara, 'New Humanist'
Author: Norman Golb Publisher: eBookIt.com ISBN: 1456608428 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 439
Book Description
Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online. Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy. Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls cannot be the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as various earlier scholars had claimed, but are in all likelihood the remains of libraries of various Jewish groups, smuggled out of Jerusalem and hidden in desert caves during the Roman siege of 70 A. D. Contributing to the enduring debate sparked by the book's original publication in 1995, this digital edition contains additional material reporting on new developments that have led a series of major Israeli and European archaeologists to support Golb's basic conclusions. In its second half, the book offers a detailed analysis of the workings of the scholarly monopoly that controlled the Scrolls for many years, and discusses Golb's role in the struggle to make the texts available to the public. Pleading for an end to academic politics and a commitment to the search for truth in scrolls scholarship, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? sets a new standard for studies in intertestamental history "This book is 'must reading'.... It demonstrates how a particular interpretation of an ancient site and particular readings of ancient documents became a straitjacket for subsequent discussion of what is arguably the most widely publicized set of discoveries in the history of biblical archaeology...." Dr. Gregory T. Armstrong, 'Church History' Golb "gives us much more than just a fresh and convincing interpretation of the origin and significance of the Qumran Scrolls. His book is also... a fascinating case-study of how an idee fixe, for which there is no real historical justification, has for over 40 years dominated an elite coterie of scholars controlling the Scrolls...." Daniel O'Hara, 'New Humanist'
Author: James C. VanderKam Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802866794 Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages : 203
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"Six of the seven chapters in The Dead Sea scrolls and the Bible began as the Speaker's Lectures at Oxford University, delivered during the first two weeks of May 2009"--Introd.
Author: James H. Charlesworth Publisher: Baylor University Press ISBN: 1932792201 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 500
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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.
Author: George J. Brooke Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ISBN: 9780281057108 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 314
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Professor Brooke is at the forefront of research on the Dead Sea Scrolls and here he offers a wealth of knowledge and subtle analysis. This book sheds light on the first-century world shared by the Qumran community and the writers of the New Testament.
Author: Charles F. Pfeiffer Publisher: Gramercy ISBN: Category : Dead Sea scrolls Languages : en Pages : 168
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"Since the spring of 1947, when ancient manuscripts which came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the Judean wilderness, scholars have been debating their origins and dates, attempting to place them in their proper historical context and searching other cave finds which might give them further enlightenment on pre-Christian Judaism. In this volume on Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran Community, Charles F. Pfeiffer relates the dramatic story of how the Scrolls were found and what they contain. Less than three centuries after Christ, the church father Origen mentioned Greek and Hebrew manuscripts which were found stored in jars in the region of Jericho. But this could not be confirmed until seventeen centuries later, when an Arab lad herding sheep or goats in the area entered a cave—perhaps in pursuit of a stray goat, perhaps taking refuge from a sudden thunderstorm, perhaps while smuggling goods across the Jordan to Bethlehem—and came upon the documents, which he tried to sell in the marketplace. How two buyers each brought part of the lot without realizing who had the other part, how one buyer tried to sell his acquisition in the United States before ceding it to the State of Israel, how archeologists were inspired to explore other caves and how their digs in eleven caves produced at least four hundred additional manuscripts—all of these facts provide a fascinating insight into what Professor Frank Cross has called "the ultimate in jigsaw puzzles. Certain myths and legends are dispelled: although Qumran has been reported to be the site of Gomorrah, the location has been proved to be wrong, and it is more likely that it was a Roman military outpost. In any case, the civilization which existed there was a highly developed one: inkwells with dried ink point to learned scribes who apparently copied the manuscripts and had them in their possession when they saw their homes about to be destroyed by Roman legions. Through the excavations of the ruins the whole history of Jews was reconstituted: the idol worship of the pre-exile period; the influence of the Hellenism during the time of Alexander the Great; the scourge of venality in the days when priesthoods were openly bought and sold; the guerrilla war with Syria and the subsequent cleansing of the Temple by Judas, still celebrated in the feast of Hanukkah; the origins of the Hassidim, who supported religious liberty but not nationalism; the evolution of sects such as the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Essenes. The author traces the background of customs such as common meals and explains the origin of water purification and common property laws. the reader can learn the true meaning of the scroll: "The War Between the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness," and be informed that the Jewish religion, unlike other theologies, considered the one and omnipotent God to be the author of both good and evil, master of the world. In short, this is an invaluable handbook for the historian, theologian, the archeologist and indeed for any curious reader."-Publisher.
Author: Donald T. Ariel Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 178
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are regarded as perhaps the most important archaeological find of the twentieth century - their importance to the history and development of Judaism and Christianity is unquestionable. This lavishly produced book shows the scrolls in their context, providing translations, pictures, and information on associated finds.
Author: Eugene Ulrich Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004677135 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 327
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In this important collection of studies, copublished by Eerdmans and Brill, one of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls outlines a comprehensive theory that reconstructs the complex development of the ancient texts that eventually came to form the Old Testament.
Author: Martin G. Abegg, Jr. Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062031120 Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages : 674
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From the dramatic find in the caves of Qumran, the world's most ancient version of the Bible allows us to read the scriptures as they were in the time of Jesus.
Author: Norman Golb
Author: Norman Golb
Author: James C. VanderKam
Author: James H. Charlesworth
Author: George J. Brooke
Author: Charles F. Pfeiffer
Author: Casey Deryl Elledge
Author: John Marco Allegro
Author: Donald T. Ariel
Author: Eugene Ulrich
Author: Martin G. Abegg, Jr.