Dissecting the Qumran-Essene Hypothesis

The Dead Sea Scroll research is a stormy and dramatic field, an uncommon mix of great scholarship and crackpot ideas, of collusion and scandal, of passion and intrigue. Here, Ullmann-Margalit traces the origins of Judeo-Christian civilization--the point of contact between Judaism and Christianity, which is itself a fulcrum of intense interest. According to her, to this day many puzzles surrounding the scrolls remain unsolved and fiercely contested, specifically on dissecting how are the scrolls related to Qumran--the site near the caves where the scrolls were found.