The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, Rev. Ed

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 22 feb. 2010 - 260 pagini
Best-selling book on the Scrolls, updated to reflect current scholarship and recent debates

The premier Dead Sea Scrolls primer ever since its original publication in 1994, James VanderKam's Dead Sea Scrolls Today won the Biblical Archaeology Society's Publication Award in 1995 for the Best Popular Book on Biblical Archaeology. In this expanded and updated edition the book will continue to illuminate the greatest archaeological find in modern times.

While retaining the format, style, and aims of the first edition, the second edition of The Dead Sea Scrolls Today takes into account the full publication of the texts from the caves and the post-1994 debates about the Qumran site, and it contains an additional section regarding information that the Scrolls provide about Second Temple Judaism and the groups prominent at the time. Further, VanderKam has enlarged the bibliographies throughout and changed the phrasing in many places. Finally, quotations of the Scrolls are from the fifth edition of Geza Vermes's translation, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Penguin, 1997).

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b The Cave Itself
13
contents
16
The Ruins of Qumran
20
Methods for Dating the Discoveries
33
2 Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
37
Survey of the Manuscripts
47
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
58
1 The Habakkuk Commentary 1QpHab
65
The Qumran Essenes
127
B A SKETCH OF QUMRAN THOUGHT AND PRACTICE
137
vi
155
The Scrolls and the Old Testament
157
A CANON OF SCRIPTURE
178
The Scrolls and the New Testament
197
Controversies about the Dead Sea Scrolls
227
Postscript
243

The Identification of the Qumran Group
97
B PROBLEMS WITH THE ESSENE HYPOTHESIS
114

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Despre autor (2010)

James C. VanderKam is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. Among his many other books are The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible, The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, and the two-volume commentary on the book of Jubilees in the Hermeneia series. He also served as an editor for thirteen volumes in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series and was editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature from 2006 to 2012.

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