Reader Checked|17/10/2012 SE
Who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls? When and where were they discovered? How were they saved? Who has them now? Will more be discovered? Have all the scrolls been published? Are some still hidden away? Were there conspiracies to suppress some scrolls? How do the scrolls affect Christianity and Judaism? How similar are the biblical scrolls to our Bible today? These and other questions are answered in The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Short History, which offers information from exclusive interviews and unpublished archives. This book is ment as an introduction to the author's "the Dead Sea Scrolls: a Full History" (Leiden: Brill, 2009).
Contents: Discovery and purchase of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Study and publication -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible -- The Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism, and Christianity -- Qumran and the Essenes -- Timeline of events related to the Dead Sea Scrolls.