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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls</title>
    <subTitle>A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Shanks,  Hershel</namePart>
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    <publisher>Random House</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1992</dateIssued>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxxviii, 336 p. :  ill. , maps ;  25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Discovering 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with the daughters of men / Ronald S. Hendel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity / James C. VanderKam -- An unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative / Hershel Shanks -- Was John the Baptist an Essene?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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Hershel Shanks</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Dead Sea scrolls</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BM487  .U49 1992</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">97806794144830679414487</identifier>
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