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What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? David Noel Freedman and Pam Fox Kuhlken Retail Price: $10.00 CenturyOne Price: $8.00 You Save: $2.00 (20%) Availability: Ships in 24 Hours Format: Paperback, 128pp. ISBN: 9780802844248 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: March 15, 2007 Book Information: Description Reviews About the Author Table of Contents Customer Reviews Find Similar Books Average Customer Review: Order This Book! Item No: 9780802844248 Safe Shopping Guarantee Description From The Publisher: The Dead Sea Scrolls are again on exhibit, and thousands of people will journey to see them. But will these folks understand what they see? There are plenty of scholarly volumes on the Dead Sea Scrolls, full of indexes, footnotes, and jargon for those in the know. But what about the majority of the population — nonspecialists who just want a basic understanding of what the Dead Sea Scrolls are and why they’re so important? That’s where this little book comes in. David Noel Freedman and Pam Fox Kuhlken here offer an informed, inside look at these significant ancient texts. Full of humor and behind-the-scenes glimpses into research on the Scrolls, What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? is a fascinating, accessible guidebook — perfect for any reader seeking a brief, quality introduction to this inscrutable subject. Questions addressed run the gamut from general to paranoid to somewhat cynical. Here’s a sampling: What are the Dead Sea Scrolls all about? Who wrote them, why, and in what languages? How do scholars reconstruct a biblical text? Have the Scrolls changed our understanding of any passages in the Bible? Do the Scrolls tell us when the world will end? How has technology improved our ability to study the Scrolls? How much would a Scroll fragment sell for on eBay today? Reviews   Reader's Index Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book.   About the Authors David Noel Freedman holds the Endowed Chair in Hebrew Biblical studies at the University of California in San Diego. He is the author or editor of numerous publications, including the Anchor Bible Project, the Eerdmans Critical Commentary, and the Bible in Its World Series and has been a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar for over fifty years. Pam Fox Kuhlken is assistant professor of English at Arizona Western College and teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program at Perelandra College. Table of Contents Foreword vii Introducing the Dead Sea Scrolls ix   What's All the Fuss About? 1 The Greatest Archaeological Find of the Twentieth Century: A 2,000-Year-Old Time Capsule 13 The Ancient Book Club 23 Show Me the Money: Buried Treasure and Other Mysteries 31 The Dead Sea Is Deathly Hot . . . Why There? 35 The End of the World and the Battle Between Good and Evil 45 Translating Translations and Copying Copies 53 What If the Bible Is Just Another Fragment? A Primer on Textual Criticism 63 Do We Have the Wrong Hebrew Bible? A Primer on Source Criticism 70 Surreal Theologians: Belief and Practice at Qumrân 78 The Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, and Early Christianity 92 The Beginning of the End 101 What’s Next? 108   A Dead Sea Scrolls Glossary 112 David Noel Freedman’s Select Bibliography on the Dead Sea Scrolls 129 Customer Reviews Write your own online review. Look for Similar Books by Subject The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls Today Dead Sea Scrolls

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