TY - MANSCPT AU - Flint,Peter W. TI - The Dead Sea scrolls SN - 9780687494491 (pbk.) AV - BM487 .F574 2013 U1 - 296.1/55 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Nashville PB - Abingdon Press KW - Dead Sea scrolls KW - Relation to the Old Testament KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Judaism KW - History KW - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D KW - Qumran community N1 - 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 ER -