The title of this book, then, is not Second Thoughts on the Dawn of Christianity but Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This volume attempts to do something a bit different from these more comprehensive scholarly resources. First, the essays collected here are purposely introductory.
The scrolls have been the subject of unending fascination and controversy ever since their discovery in the Qumran caves beginning in 1947. Intensifying the debate, Professor Norman Golb now fundamentally challenges those who argue that the writings belonged to a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect.
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.