The Dead Sea scrolls / [manuscript] /
Peter Flint.
- Nashville : Abingdon press, c2013.
- 212 pages ; 23 cm.
- Core Biblical Studies series .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
The discovery of the Scrolls in the Judean Desert -- Archaeology of the Qumran site: the caves, buildings, and cemeteries -- Dating the scrolls found at Qumran -- The Bible before the scrolls -- The Biblical scrolls -- The Dead Sea scrolls and the Biblical text -- The scrolls, the Apocrypha, and the Pseudepigrapha -- The shape and contents of the Scriptures used at Qumran -- The Nonbiblical scrolls -- The movement associated with Qumran : Not Pharisees or Sadducees, but Essenes -- Religious thought and practice reflected in the Qumran scrolls -- The New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
9780687494491 (pbk.)
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Dead Sea scrolls. Dead Sea scrolls--Relation to the Old Testament. Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. Qumran community.