About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 97. Chapters: 11Q13, 11Q18 New Jerusalem, 4Q106, 4Q107, 4Q108, 4Q175, 4Q240, 4Q246, 4Q252, 4Q448, 4Q510-511, 4Q521, 4QInstruction, 4QMMT, 6Q6, 7Q5, Alexander Rofe, Andre Dupont-Sommer, Angelic tongues, Aramaic Enoch Scroll, Babatha, Bargil Pixner, Carbon dating the Dead Sea Scrolls, Cave of Letters, Community Rule, Copper Scroll, Damascus Document, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, Ecole Biblique, Ein Feshkha, Elisha Qimron, Emanuel Tov, Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz, Eugene Ulrich, Feast of the First Fruits of Wine, Florentino Garcia Martinez, Frank Moore Cross, Genesis Apocryphon, Gerald Lankester Harding, Geza Vermes, Green Collection, Habakkuk Commentary, Hanan Eshel, Hartmut Stegemann, Isaiah scroll, James A. Sanders, Jean Carmignac, Jean Starcky, John C. Trever, John M. Allegro, John Strugnell, Jonas C. Greenfield, Joseph M. Baumgarten, Jozef Milik, Ken Hanson, Kohlit, Lawrence Schiffman, Mar Samuel, Millar Burrows, Nahal Hever, Nahum Commentary, Najib Albina, Ogias the Giant, Pesher, Philip R. Davies, Pierre Benoit (archaeologist), Psalms 152-155, Psalm 151, Qumran, Qumran calendrical texts, Qumran Caves, Qumran cemetery, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Roland de Vaux, Shrine of the Book, Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, Sons of Zadok, Teacher of Righteousness, Temple Scroll, Thanksgiving Hymns, The Book of Mysteries, The Orion Center, The Rule of the Blessing, The Rule of the Congregation, The Secret of the Way Things Are, The Seekers after Smooth Things, The War of the Messiah, Wadi Murabba'at, War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, War Rule, Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?, Wicked Priest, William Andrew Moffett, Yahad Ostracon. Excerpt: The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran in what was then British Mandate Palestine, and since 1947 known as the West Bank. They were found on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name. The texts are of great historical, religious and linguistic significance because they include the earliest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. The texts are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean, mostly on parchment but with some written on papyrus and bronze. The manuscripts have been dated to various ranges between 408 BCE and 318 CE. Bronze coins found on the site form a series beginning with John Hyrcanus (135-104 BCE) and continuing until the First Jewish-Roman War (66-73 CE). The scrolls have traditionally been identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, although some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups. The Dead Sea Scrolls are divided into three groups; copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible, which comprise roughly 40% of the identified scrolls, texts from the Second Temple Period like the Book of Enoch, Jubilees, the Book of Tobit, the Wisdom of Sirach, Psalms 152-155, etc., that ultimately were not canonized in the Hebrew Bible, which comprise roughly 30% of the identified scrolls, and sectarian manuscripts (previously unknown documents that shed light on the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism) like the Community Rule, the War Scroll, the Pesher on Habakkuk and the The Rule of the Blessing, which comprise roughly 30% of the identified scrolls. Qumran cave 4, where ninety percent of the scrolls were foundThe Dead Sea Scrolls were
