The Dead Sea Scrolls Today - Softcover

Vanderkam, James C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 028104774X ISBN 13: 9780281047741

Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co, 1994

Synopsis

A summary of the story of the Dead Sea scrolls and what has happened to them since the mid-1980s. The author - who is a member of the team charged with translating the scrolls - covers their discovery, examines their nature, explains their chronology and explores their literary character.

About this title

From Library Journal:

In the fertile imaginations of some writers, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the seed for imaginative (if not sound) speculation, resulting in such recent books as Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh's The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception (LJ 1/92) and Barbara Thiering's Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992). In the wake of these books, VanderKam's sane appraisal of the Scrolls' saga and of current Scrolls scholarship, written on a level that is understandable to lay readers and others who are not specialists in the field, is especially welcome. In a balanced fashion, Bible scholar VanderKam addresses the major issues regarding the Scrolls: the circumstances surrounding their discovery and subsequent publication (and nonpublication); the identity of the Qumran group responsible for writing and collecting the documents; and the impact of the Scrolls upon traditional theories and beliefs. Recommended for seminary, academic, and public libraries.
Craig W. Beard, Univ. of Alabama Lib., Birmingham
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 028104774X
• ISBN 13: 9780281047741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208