The Dead Sea Scrolls.

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations, Definitions, and Key Words -- Ancient Groups and Figures -- Introduction: The Greatest Find of Our Times -- 1. The Discovery of the Scrolls in the Judean Desert -- 1. The First Cave at Qumran and Its Seven Scrolls -- 2. The Other Ten Qumran Caves and Their Scrolls -- 3. Dead Sea Scrolls from Other Sites in the Judean Desert -- 4. The Quest for Further Caves and Scrolls -- 2. Archaeology of the Qumran Site: The Caves, Buildings, and Cemeteries -- 1. Archaeology and the Qumran Caves -- 2. Archaeology of the Qumran Buildings -- 3. The Qumran Cemeteries -- 3. Dating the Scrolls Found at Qumran -- 1. Dating the Scrolls and the Qumran Site by Archaeology -- 2. Internal Datings in the Scrolls -- 3. Dating Dead Sea Scrolls Using Paleography -- 4. Radiocarbon Methods of Dating -- 4. The Bible Before the Scrolls -- 1. The Masoretic Text -- 2. The Samaritan Pentateuch -- 3. The Septuagint or Greek Bible -- 4. Other Versions (Translations) of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament -- 5. The Biblical Scrolls -- 1. The Pentateuch (or Torah) -- 2. The Historical Books -- 3. The Poetical Books -- 4. The Prophets -- 6. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Text -- 1. Observations on the Biblical Scrolls -- 2. The Scrolls and the Text of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament -- 7. The Scrolls, the Apocrypha, and the Pseudepigrapha -- 1. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha -- 2. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 8. The Shape and Contents of the Scriptures Used at Qumran -- 1. Hebrew Bible or Old Testament? -- 2. Ancient Evidence Outside the Scrolls Found at Qumran -- 3. Evidence from the Scrolls Found at Qumran -- 9. The Nonbiblical Scrolls -- 1. Rules -- 2. Legal Texts -- 3. Commentaries on Authoritative Texts -- 4. Poetic Texts, Calendars, Prayers, and Liturgies.

5. Wisdom (Sapiential) Texts -- 6. Eschatological Texts -- 7. The Copper Scroll, Other Documentary Texts, and Nonsectarian Texts -- 10. The Movement Associated with Qumran: Not Pharisees or Sadducees, but Essenes -- 1. Were the Scrolls Found at Qumran Associated with the Pharisees? -- 2. Were the Scrolls Found at Qumran Associated with the Sadducees? -- 3. The Scrolls Found Near Qumran Were Associated with a Group of Essenes -- 4. Concluding Statement on the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes -- 5. History of the Essene Movement -- 11. Religious Thought and Practice Reflected in the Qumran Scrolls -- 1. Concept of God -- 2. Predeterminism (or Fate), the Two Ways, and the Supernatural Origins of Evil -- 3. One Overall Principle (Law) -- 4. Interpretation of Scripture -- 5. Experiencing God and the Divine -- 6. The End of Days and the Messiahs -- 12. The New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 1. The Scrolls and Early Christian Writings: New Testament Writings at Qumran? -- 2. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (the Gospels and the Scrolls) -- 3. The Scrolls and the Early Church: Acts, Paul, and the Other Letters -- 4. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Book of Revelation -- Bibliography -- Editions, English Translations, and Computer Software -- Books and Articles Mentioned in this Volume -- Index of Modern Authors -- Comment on the Website and Online Material.

An essential guide to the most significant discovery in the history of biblical studies the Dead Sea Scrolls.".

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