The Truth under Lock and Key?: Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Princeton Theological Dead Sea Scrolls Project S) - Softcover

Berger, Klaus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664255477 ISBN 13: 9780664255473

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995

Synopsis

Klaus Berger offers a clearly written and highly understandable introcuction to the controversy surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls. He insightfully examines the relationship between the Judaism of the Qumran community and Christianity in its formative period. The picture that emerges proves to be interesting and provocative. An ideal starting point for the nonspecialist, this book provides basic and reliable information about the Dead Sea Scrolls and their magnificance for Christianity.

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About the Author

Klaus Berger is Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. The author of numerous publications, he is an authority in the field of early Christian origins.

From the Back Cover

Klaus Berger offers a clearly written and highly understandable introduction to the controversy surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls. He insightfully examines the relationship between the Judaism of the Qumran community and Christianity in its formative period. The picture that emerges proves to be more provocative and interesting than the speculative views that are making such a stir at the present. An ideal starting point for the nonspecialist, this book provides basic and reliable information about the Dead Sea Scrolls and their significance for Christianity.

Reviews

Here is yet another telling of the tales of deception, intrigue, and scholarship that form the ongoing saga of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first section of this book challenges the theses of Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise's The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (LJ 2/1/93), while the second analyzes the ways in which the scrolls inform the development of the early Christian community. Berger presents little that is genuinely new here, for the similarities of many of the religious practices of the Qumran community with early Christian practice, e.g., baptismal rites, common meals, have been common knowledge for years. Better choices for libraries would be James Charlesworth's Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (LJ 12/92) or Norman Golb's Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search for the Meaning of the Qumran Manuscripts (Macmillan, 1994). Not recommended.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0664255477
• ISBN 13: 9780664255473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 113