01951nam a2200145Ia 4500008004100000020002800041041000800069050002200077245011700099260003800216300004700254505146100301650002201762700002101784230916s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97806794144830679414487  aeng  aBM487 b.U49 1992 0aUnderstanding the Dead Sea Scrolls : bA Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review /cedited by Hershel Shanks  aNew York : bRandom House, c1992  axxxviii, 336 p. : bill. , maps ; c25 cm.  aDiscovering the scrolls / Harry Thomas Frank -- The historical context of the scrolls / Frank Moore Cross -- The Sadducean origins of the Dead Sea scroll sect / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The people of the Dead Sea scrolls : Essenes or Sadducees? / James C. VanderKam -- "First Dead Sea scroll" found in Egypt fifty years before Qumran discoveries / Raphael Levy -- Essene origins : Palestine or Babylonia? / Hershel Shanks -- The temple scroll : the longest Dead Sea scroll / Yigael Yadin -- The gigantic dimensions of the visionary temple in the temple scroll / Magen Broshi -- Intrigue and the scroll / Hershel Shanks -- Is the temple scroll a sixth book of the Torah, lost for 2,500 years? / Hartmut Stegemann.  The text behind the text of the Hebrew Bible: Light on the Bible from the Dead Sea caves / Frank Moore Cross -- When the sons of God cavorted with the daughters of men / Ronald S. Hendel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity / James C. VanderKam -- An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative / Hershel Shanks -- Was John the Baptist an Essene? / Otto Betz -- New light on the Pharisees / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The mystery of the copper scroll / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. -- How to connect Dead Sea scroll fragments / Hartmut Stegemann -- Interview with chief scroll editor John Strugnell / Avi Katzman -- Silence, anti-semitism, and the scrolls: Is the Vatican suppressing the Dead Sea scrolls? / Hershel Shanks.  aDead Sea scrolls.  aShanks,  Hershel