An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls

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Fortress Press, 1 ian. 1999 - 256 pagini
A thorough revision of a classic work on these crucial extant texts.

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The Dead Sea Scrolls 19471999
1
The present state of Dead Sea Scrolls studies
9
Authenticity and Dating of the Scrolls
22
Archaeology and the Scrolls
25
Palaeography and the Scrolls
28
Historical allusions in the Scrolls
30
The Qumran Library
32
Poetic and liturgical texts
45
The History of the Community
127
200 BCE70 CE
128
The history of the Essenes
132
The Religious Ideas of the Community
145
The Covenant
146
Election and holy life in the Community of the Covenant
151
Worship in the Community of the Covenant
156
Future expectations in the Community of the Covenant
163

Wisdom texts
59
Bible interpretation and apocryphal works
63
Miscellaneous compositions
91
The Community
94
Identification of the Community
114
The Sadducees
115
The Pharisees
117
The Zealots
119
The Essenes
122
Qumran and Biblical Studies
170
The Pseudepigrapha
181
The New Testament
182
Scrolls Catalogue
192
Notes
217
Index of Modern Authors
247
General Index
252
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Pagina 18 - Art Thou He that cometh or look we for another? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go your way and tell John the things which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up and the poor have good tidings preached to them : and blessed is he whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in Me.
Pagina 117 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Pagina 187 - And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need.
Pagina 67 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
Pagina 35 - And in the age of wrath, three hundred and ninety years after He had given them into the hand of king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, He visited them, and He caused a plant root to spring from Israel and Aaron to inherit His land and to prosper on the good things of His earth.
Pagina 152 - From the God of Knowledge comes all that is and shall be. Before ever they existed He established their whole design, and when, as ordained for them, they come into being, it is in accord with His glorious design that they accomplish their task without change.
Pagina 18 - But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Pagina 69 - Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
Pagina 185 - But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.

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