The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Dead Seas scrolls and the Qumran CommunityJames H. Charlesworth The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three volumes, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity. |
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Contents
Revealing Invisible Scripts | 1 |
Another Stab at the Wicked Priest | 17 |
The Covenant in Qumran | 59 |
The Law and Spirit of Purity at Qumran | 93 |
The Two Spirits in Qumran Theology | 169 |
Dualism in the Essene Communities | 195 |
Magen Broshi | 235 |
Qumran Community Structure | 283 |
The Sociological and Liturgical Dimensions | 317 |
The qdch hrwm | 351 |
Qumran and the Dating of the Parables of Enoch | 377 |
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Meal Formula | 397 |
Trafton | 427 |
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha at Qumran | 447 |
The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha at Qumran | 469 |
Daily and Festival Prayers at Qumran | 301 |
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