The complete world of the Dead Sea scrolls /

The complete world of the Dead Sea scrolls /

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Main Author: Davies, Philip R. (Author)

Other Authors: Brooke, George J., Callaway, Phillip R.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: London : Thames and Hudson, 2002.

Subjects:

Dead Sea scrolls.
West Bank > Qumran Site.

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Call Number: BM487 .D38 2002

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Table of Contents:
  • •I. •The Scrolls Revealed •Early Dead Sea Discoveries •The Damascus Document •Editing the Scrolls: The First Fifty Years •The First Editors •II. •The Ancient World of the Scrolls •The Historical Framework: From Babylon to Bar Kokhba •Jewish Religious Life •Jewish Parties and Sects •III. •Inside the Scrolls •Making a Scroll •Scripts and Writing Styles •Carbon-14 Dating •Reconstructing a Scroll. •Cave 1 •The Rules Scroll •The Community Rule •The Rule of the Congregation •The Rule of Blessings •The War Scroll •The Thanksgiving Hymns •The Biblical Commentaries •The Genesis Apocryphon •The Book of Jubilees. •Cave 2 •New Jerusalem. •Cave 3 •The Copper Scroll. •Cave 4 •The Commentaries on Genesis •Targums to Leviticus and Job •The 'Reworked Pentateuch' •Apocryphon of Joshua •Tobit •The Books of Enoch •Other Ancient Works Preserved in Cave 4 •The Florilegium •The Testimonia •Ordinances •The Calendar Texts •The Halakhic Letter •The Wisdom Texts •Poetry, Psalms and Prayers •The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice •Fragments of the Damascus Document •Documentary Texts. •Caves 5 to 10 •Cave 11 •The Temple Scroll •The Psalms Scroll •Melchizedek. •Biblical Manuscripts from the Qumran Caves •IV. •The Qumran Settlement •The Qumran Settlement •Recently Discovered Ostraca from Qumran •Scrolls, Caves and Ruins: Are They Connected? •V. •The Meaning of the Scrolls •The Dead Sea Scrolls and Judaism •The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity •Who Wrote the Scrolls? •Where to See the Scrolls.