In the winter of 1946-47, a shepherd boy threw a stone into a cave, hitting a clay jar and uncovering one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of modern times: the Dead Sea Scrolls. Though the saga of the discovery has been told and retold many times, less attention has been paid to how the events have unfolded over the decades. In this accessible and illuminating work, one of the world's foremost Dead Sea Scrolls scholars--and one of the first women to actually see the documents--reflects on the most significant learnings about these ancient documents of faith.
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Eileen M. Schuller is Professor ofReligious Studies at McMasterUniversity in Hamilton, Ontario,Canada. She has been one of the leaders in editing and publishing theDead Sea Scrolls for the last twenty-fiveyears and is an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. She has been president of the CanadianSociety of Biblical Studies and a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Gottingen.
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Written by Eileen M. Schuller, professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University and one of the leaders in translating, editing, and publishing the Dead Sea Scrolls over the past twenty-five years, The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? is a solid overview of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient texts from the religious Essene sect of two thousand years ago discovered in the mid-twentieth century. In addition, The Dead Sea Scrolls addresses how the Scrolls have influenced modern religious scholars, broadened understanding of early Jewish faith, and what they say about worship practices and the role of women in early Judaism. Written in candid terms accessible to lay readers and religious scholars alike, The Dead Sea Scrolls is a concise and ideal exposition of what decades of research have discovered from ancient texts.
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I enjoyed learning more about this discovery. This is an ancient discovery of truly biblical proportions.
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The saga of the discovery of a cave with unexpected content near the western shore of the Dead Sea, and the series of events that this discovery set in motion, has been told and retold many times. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
scrolls research, biblical scrolls Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, Rule of the Community, Damascus Document, John Strugnell, Emanuel Tov, Thanksgiving Psalms, Eugene Ulrich, Teacher of Righteousness, The Jewish War, War Scroll, Frank Moore Cross, Roland de Vaux, Temple Scroll, Khirbet Qumran, Leningrad Codex, Hebrew University, International Team, École Biblique, Genesis Apocryphon, Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, Geza Vermes, Nahal Hever, Society of Biblical Literature New!
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