The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionUnraveling the controversies surrounding the Dead Sea ScrollsSince they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead S...

Contains new information about unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls with translations of key passages and recent discovery of the movement behind the Scrol...

Reducere. Best-selling book on the Scrolls, updated to reflect current scholarship and recent debates The premier Dead Sea Scrolls primer ever since its orig...

Reducere. In 68 CE, devout Jews left more than one thousand handwritten documents in caves northwest of the Dead Sea. The cave that most defined the beliefs ...

Offers historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from Babylon to Bar Kokhba, and expert interpretation of the manuscripts us...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ken JohnsonAutobiographies from the Dead Sea Scrolls The Talmud teaches that the ancient patriarchs were all prophets, and ...

Reducere. One of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English trans...

Reducere. DescriptionThe second part of a 2-volume work, this is a practical reference tool to facilitate access to the Qumran collection of the Dead Sea Scr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe second part of a 2-volume work, this is a practical reference tool to facilitate access to the Qumran collection of the Dead Sea Scr...

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Reducere. As a Seminary graduate, I find myself constantly researching ancient manuscripts (like the Dead Sea Scrolls) for additional insight into the histor...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Professor Robert Eisenman details his struggles to break the monopoly on the Dead Sea Scrolls enjoyed by "The Official Tea...

The fourth Balaam oracle (Numbers 24.17-19) appears in four separate Dead Sea Scrolls. But how it is used and understood remains puzzling and chall...

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