Among the invaluable manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are numerous fragments of liturgical texts pertaining to the ritual life of Jews living around the turn of the common era. These fascinating writings include prayers for annual festivals, a covenant renewal liturgy, a mystical liturgy for Sabbath sacrifices, a grace ceremony for mourners, daily and weekly prayers, liturgies of purificatio…
This is an accessible commentary on the Jewish wisdom literature of Qumran by a renowned Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. The book features translations, critical notes, and a line-by-line commentary.
This edition presents for the first time "all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. Of these texts, some twenty were not previously published.
With the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls come major changes in our understanding of these fascinating texts and their significance for the study of the history of Judaism and Christianity. One of the most significant changes that one cannot study Qumran without Jerusalem nor Jerusalem without Qumran is explored in this important volume. / Although the Scrolls preserve the peculiar ideo…
Karya penting dari tiga pakar ternama Gulungan Laut Mati ini berhasil menyulap gulungan-gulungan kuno Qumran menjadi sangat hidup. Dengan menerjemah dan memastikan arti setiap bagian yang masih terbaca dari kepingan-kepingan Gulungan Laut Mati, ketiga penulis buku ini menyuguhkan komentar lugas atas keseluruhan teks dan menempatkan Gulungan pada konteks sejarah yang sesungguhnya.
The story in that form may be accurate, but it turns out to be something of a simplification. As a matter of fact, much remains unknown about the exact circumstances under which those scrolls were discovered.
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.
Writing for Christian who are uninformed or confused about textual criticism, Greenlee explains the production of ancient manuscripts, the history of the biblical text, and the effect of textual criticism on our understanding of the Bible.
In 1967 Maurice and Lorraine Harvey, six years into their marriage and their overseas mission adventures, transferred from the volatile surroundings of West Africa to the relative calm of the South Pacific island nation of Fiji. With two young children in tow, it was a move closer to their home in New Zealand, but there would still be plenty of surprises as they embarked on this new phase of th…
This book provides a gathering place for the seminar papers and discussions that are part of this twenty five year journey. This volume help anyone understand how evangelicals. struggling to unite evangelism and social action, found their way to the biblical view of mission in which God calls all human being to love God and their neighbour, never creating a separation between two.