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An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls
Geza Vermes

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Format: Paperback, 256pp.
ISBN: 9780800632298
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Press
Pub. Date: Revised edition (March 2000)

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This thoroughly revised and updated version of The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective is useful as a textbook for courses in Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible, or the New Testament. It has been a standard work in the field for the past thirty years.

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“This marvelous book brings us up-to-date on the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, taking its place at the head of the line in introductions to the subject . . . Students will be grateful for the interesting way in which issues are laid forth, a classic of elegant exposition of scholarly problems.”
—Jacob Neusner, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

 

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Geza Vermes is Emeritus Fellow of the British Academy, and Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. His other Fortress Press books are The Religion of Jesus the Jew (1993) and Jesus the Jew (1981). He has been an international leader in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls research for more than forty years, as recounted in his Providential Accidents: An Autobiography (1998).

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Preface
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Major editions of Qumran manuscripts
General bibliography
Maps


1. The Dead Sea Scrolls: 1947-1999

A bird's-eye view of Dead Sea Scrolls research
The present state of Dead Sea Scrolls studies

2. Authenticity and Dating of the Scrolls
Archaeology and the Scrolls
Palaeography and the Scrolls
Historical allusions in the Scrolls

3. The Qumran Library
The Rules
Poetic and liturgical texts
Wisdom texts
Bible interpretation and apocryphal works
Miscellaneous compositions

4. The Community

5. Identification of the Community
The Sadducees
The Pharisees
The Zealots
The Essenes

6. The History of the Community
Inter-testamental Jewish history: 200 BCE-70 CE
The history of the Essenes

7. The Religious Ideas of the Community
The Covenant
Election and holy life in the Community of the Covenant
Worship in the Community of the Covenant
Future expectations in the Community of the Covenant

8. Qumran and Biblical Studies
The text of the Old Testament
The Pseudepigrapha
The New Testament

Scrolls Catalogue
Notes
Index of Modern Authors
General Index


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