Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search for the Secret of Qumran

Name: Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search for the Secret of Qumran
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ISBN: 9780025443952

ISBN-10: 002544395X

ISBN-13: 9780025443952

Edition: 1995

Authors: Norman Golb

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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 1/16/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



A New Theory of Scroll Origins



The Qumran Plateau



The Manuscripts of the Jews



1947: The First Scroll Discoveries



The Qumran-Essene Theory: A Paradigm Reconsidered



The Copper Scroll, the Masada Manuscripts, and the Siege of Jerusalem



Scroll Origins: Rengstorf's Theory and Edmund Wilson's Response



Science, Politics, and the Dead Sea Scrolls



The Temple Scroll, the Acts of Torah, and the Qumranologists' Dilemma



Power Politics and the Collapse of the Scrolls Monopoly



Myth and Science in the World of Qumranology



The Deepening Scrolls Controversy



The New York Conference and Some Academic Intrigues



The Importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls


Epilogue: Judaism, Christianity, and the Scrolls


Afterword


Glossary


Endnotes


Selected Bibliography


Index