The Dead Sea scrolls today /

VanderKam, James C.

The Dead Sea scrolls today / James C. VanderKam. - 2nd ed. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2010. - xvi, 260 p. : ill., maps, photographs ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1. Discoveries --
2. Survey of the manuscripts --
3. Identification of the Qumran group --
4. Qumran Essenes --
5. The Scrolls and the Old Testament --
6. The Scrolls and the New Testament --
7. Controversies about the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Summary: Summarizes the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their discovery, nature chronology, literary character, and background.

9780802864352 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009048973


Dead Sea scrolls.
Bible.--O.T.--Criticism, Textual.
Dead Sea scrolls--Relation to the New Testament.
Bible.--N.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Qumran community.
Essenes.

BM 487 / .V26 2010

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