Questions and answers that people ask today about the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls—their contents, their significance, and recent developments about them—written by an expert who has worked on the scrolls from the beginning.
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The best guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls,
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This review is from: Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback)
There are a number of books on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some are well balanced, and others simply what one can call sensationalism. Father Joseph A. Fitzmyer, an Aramaic expert, as well as one of the world's best biblical scholars,belonging to the school of Prof.William f.Albright,was involved in the Dead Sea Scrolls project since the 1950s. He edited the Tobit texts of these documents coming from the Essenes. His book is easy to read and provides a lot of information. A must for scholar and layman alike.
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A Catechetical Instruction on DSS History and Meaning,
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Since my interest in the DSS was evoked, reading Edmund Wilson's account of the work that has been patiently done on this great discovery, I kept following what scholars and experts wrote, including extreme interpretations by Allegro and conspiracy plots by others. Early since 1985 when Hershel Shanks expressed DSS scholars concern over the dawdling publications of all Qumran texts, and allegation of monopoly by Catholic scholars, my interest and many others was revived by the controversial tone of Jewish archeological scolars.
Fitzmyer, a founding member and expert on the scrolls, wrote this structured book, partly in response to Shanks accusations. Replying to virtual questions started from a scratch, on the DSS, Qumran, and the history of the great discovery in Trans Jordan. For the informed the book starts to engage on more controversial issues, starting with Q 41, the interpretation and impact of those amazing scrolls, on ancient Judaism, messianic expectations, and the relation of this community to Christian monasticism, in Mariotis by Jewish Egyptian Therapuetae. Composed by such an eminent scholar, he also discussed if any parallels or allusions were found with New Testament writings, personalities or concepts, Son of Man, divorce, and many other NT issues in the Gospels, and epistles. Starting with Q 87 he defended his international team of any allegations of monopoly, hold up, or intended delay, and undermining any 'tendentious' readings of the Qumran scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls After Forty Years (Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 27, 1990)
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The Dead Sea Scrolls,
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Joseph Fitzmyer is one of the most accomplished Catholic bible scholars today writing from the moderate perspective. This book on the Dead Scrolls may be a bit dated (it came out in 1992), but it remains an excellent introduction to the Scrolls and the controvery surrounding them. As Fitzmyer concedes, the delay in the publication of certain scrolls was scandelous, but there is no reason to think there was anything nefarious in the delay (such as a conspiracy by Catholic scholars). Likewise, although the Scrolls provide valuable background material for understanding the world of Jesus and the early church, sensational claims about references to Jesus and James, etc. have little basis in fact.
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major scrolls, exceptive phrases, nonbiblical writings, nonbiblical texts, serek hayyahad, eleven caves, canonical psalms, broken text, fragmentary copies, fragmentary texts, copper plaque, wicked priest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dead Sea, Manual of Discipline, Damascus Document, Khirbet Qumran, Temple Scroll, New York, Palestine Archaeological Museum, War Scroll, Genesis Apocryphon, East Jerusalem, Thanksgiving Psalms, Ecole Biblique, Most High, Interpreter of the Law, Jerusalem Temple, Palestinian Jewish, Son of God, Day of Atonement, Jesus of Nazareth, Nahal Hever, Alexander Janneus, Feast of Weeks, Khirbet Mird, Qumran Cave, The Washington Post New!
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major scrolls, exceptive phrases, nonbiblical writings, nonbiblical texts, serek hayyahad, eleven caves, canonical psalms, broken text, fragmentary copies, fragmentary texts, copper plaque, wicked priest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dead Sea, Manual of Discipline, Damascus Document, Khirbet Qumran, Temple Scroll, New York, Palestine Archaeological Museum, War Scroll, Genesis Apocryphon, East Jerusalem, Thanksgiving Psalms, Ecole Biblique, Most High, Interpreter of the Law, Jerusalem Temple, Palestinian Jewish, Son of God, Day of Atonement, Jesus of Nazareth, Nahal Hever, Alexander Janneus, Feast of Weeks, Khirbet Mird, Qumran Cave, The Washington Post New!
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- Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent on 6 pages
- The New Testament by Frank Schaffer Publications in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The scrolls from the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson on page 161, page 168, and page 169
- The Dead Sea Scrolls in English: Revised and Extended Fourth Edition (Penguin religion) by Geza Vermes on page 62, page 127, and Back Matter
- The New Testament by Liturgy Training Publications in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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- Communities of the Last Days : The Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament & the Story of Israel by C. Marvin Pate on 4 pages
- Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period: A Guide for New Testament Students (Christian Classics Bible Studies) by Larry R. Helyer on page 181, and page 224
- Companions and Competitors (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 3) by John P. Meier on page 349, and page 570
- Jesus and the Gospels by Craig L. Blomberg on page 42
- The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman in Back Matter
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