The Archaeology Of Qumran And The Dead Sea Scrolls 2nd Ed

Author : Jodi Magness
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802826873

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The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Jodi Magness Pdf

Magness (early Judaism, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), who has extensive archaeological experience in the area, has written a popular account of the archaeology, meaning, and controversies surrounding the Dead Seas Scrolls and the archaeological site of Qumran where they were found. Without sacrificing content, Magness turns this story into a fascinating page-turner. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jodi Magness
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467462419

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The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2nd ed. by Jodi Magness Pdf

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title and winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s Publication Award for Best Popular Book on Archaeology The Dead Sea Scrolls have been described as the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. Deposited in caves surrounding Qumran by members of a Jewish sect who lived at the site in the first century BCE and first century CE, they provide invaluable information about Judaism in the last centuries BCE. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran site continues to be the object of intense scholarly debate. In a book meant to introduce general readers to this fascinating area of study, veteran archaeologist Jodi Magness provides an overview of the archaeology of Qumran that incorporates information from the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary sources. Magness identifies Qumran as a sectarian settlement, rejecting other interpretations including claims that Qumran was a villa rustica or manor house. By carefully analyzing the published information on Qumran, she refines the site’s chronology, reinterprets the purpose of some of its rooms, and reexamines archaeological evidence for the presence of women and children in the settlement. Numerous photos and diagrams give readers a firsthand look at the site. Considered a standard text in the field for nearly two decades, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls is revised and updated throughout in its second edition in light of the publication of all the Dead Sea Scrolls and additional data from Roland de Vaux’s excavations, as well as Yitzhak Magen and Yuval Peleg’s more recent excavations. Specialists and nonspecialists alike will find here an overview of the Qumran site and the Dead Sea Scrolls that is both authoritative and accessible.

Author : Roland de Vaux
Publisher : British Academy
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCSC:32106000426186

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Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Roland de Vaux Pdf

The late Fr. Roland de Vaux was the excavator of Qumran, the home of the religious establishment to which the Dead Sea Scrolls belonged. He was also the organizer of the international team charged with editing the manuscripts. He was, therefore, singularly well placed to apply the evidence of archaeology to the interpretation of the documents. In his Schweich Lectures, delivered at the Academy in 1959, and published in French in 1961, Fr. de Vaux described in detail and archaeological evidence relating both to the scrolls and to the community which owned and may have written them. Shortly before his death in 1971, Fr. de Vaux had completed the revision of these lectures, incorporating much new material which had come to light since the first edition was published. This is included in this second edition translated into English under his own supervision.

Author : James VanderKam
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802864352

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The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, Rev. Ed by James VanderKam Pdf

This perennially bestselling book on the Dead Sea Scrolls by one of the fields most respected scholars has now been revised and updated to reflect scholarship and debates since the book was first published in 1994.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Dead Sea scrolls
ISBN : OCLC:741247332

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A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hanan Eshel
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647550961

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Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls by Hanan Eshel Pdf

Among the most prominent hallmarks of the late Prof. Hanan Eshel (1958–2010) were his generosity, passion, and integrative approach. The eighteen essays in this volume were selected by Prof. Eshel shortly before his untimely death, to be printed as a collection aimed at contextualizing the textual finds of the Dead Sea Scrolls within their archaeological settings and within the contours of contemporary scholarship.The Qumran texts that stand at the center of these articles are correlated with archaeological and geographic information and with a variety of textual sources including epigraphic evidence and, especially, the Hebrew Bible, Josephus, and rabbinic texts. The essays are organized according to the provenance of the discovered material, with sections devoted to the Damascus Documentand the scrolls from Caves 1, 3, 4, and 11, as well as a final more general chapter.Half of the essays have been previously published in English, while the other half have been translated from Hebrew here for the first time. The book includes essays that have been co-authored with Esther Eshel, Shlomit Kendi-Harel, Zeev Safrai, and John Strugnell.

Author : Jean-Baptiste Humbert,Jürgen Zangenberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047407973

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Qumran: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates by Jean-Baptiste Humbert,Jürgen Zangenberg Pdf

Archaeology plays an ever increasing role in Qumran studies. Fifteen renowned experts discuss the latest archaeological discoveries and break new ground for a lively debate about the character of the famous site on the shore of the Dead Sea.

Author : Hershel Shanks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCSC:32106014548306

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Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls by Hershel Shanks Pdf

Articles by leading scholars discuss the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls, their significance for understanding early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism, and the recent controversy regarding access to the scrolls.

Author : John J. Collins
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802828873

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Beyond the Qumran Community by John J. Collins Pdf

With the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, fresh analysis of the evidence presented can be and indeed, should be made. Beyond the Qumran Community does just that, reaching a surprising conclusion: the sect described in the Dead Sea Scrolls developed later than has usually been supposed and was never confi ned to the site of Qumran. / John J. Collins here deconstructs the Qumran community and shows that the sectarian documents actually come from a text spread throughout the land. He examines the Community Rule, or Yahad, and considers the Teacher of Righteousness, a pivotal fi gure in the Essene movement. After examining the available evidence, Collins concludes that it is, in fact, overwhelmingly likely that the site of Qumran housed merely a single settlement of a very widespread movement.

Author : Daniel J. Harrington
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Dead Sea scrolls
ISBN : 9780415139069

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Wisdom Texts from Qumran by Daniel J. Harrington Pdf

This is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts. New translations and a full explanation of the background and context of wisdom literature introduce the reader to an important part of the Dead Sea Scrolls.This study is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts. New translations and a full explanation of the background and context of wisdom literature introduce the reader to an important and hitherto little discussed part of the Dead Sea Scrolls.After surveying biblical and extrabiblical wisdom books, the author considers the best and most fully preserved wisdom texts from Qumran. The centrepiece of the book is a discussion of the large wisdom instruction known as Sapiential Work A. Also, the author reflects on the relevance of those texts for the study of early Judaism and Christianity. An appendix treats the Ben Sira scroll from Masada.

Author : Yizhar Hirschfeld
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0801046599

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Qumran in Context by Yizhar Hirschfeld Pdf

What if the Dead Sea Scrolls were not a product of an Essene Community at Qumran? In this bold reassessment of the archaeological evidence of Qumran and other nearby first-century sites on the western shore of the Dead Sea, Professor Hirschfeld argues persuasively that Qumran is not the site of an Essene community hitherto thought to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls. Reassessing and marshalling the evidence (some of which was overlooked in earlier explanations of the site) with the skill of a detective reconstructing the scene of a crime, Hirschfeld reveals that Qumran was not the communal site of an impoverished and ascetic religious group, but the prosperous estate of an influential member of society. Bringing a new understanding to the textual evidence of the archaeology of the site during the Roman period as well as evidence from neighboring archaeological sites, Hirschfeld dramatically illustrates his arguments with more than 135 maps, archaeological drawings and reconstructions, as well as vivid photographs of the archaeological and geographic sites. A masterpiece of argument with lasting impact on our understanding of the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, this work will be discussed in academic circles for years to come and will be appreciated by all who are intrigued by the mysteries surrounding the ancient texts associated with Qumran. The implications of this new perspective for the scholarly understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls are earth-shifting.

Author : R. de Vaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:466596929

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Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls by R. de Vaux Pdf

Author : Robert H. Eisenman,James McConkey Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Dead Sea scrolls
ISBN : IND:30000022240794

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A facsimile edition of the Dead Sea scrolls by Robert H. Eisenman,James McConkey Robinson Pdf

Author : Hershel Shanks
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441152176

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Freeing the Dead Sea Scrolls by Hershel Shanks Pdf

Fascinating account of a world-renowned Biblical Archaeologist and his scrapes with Governments, Nomads and Scoundrels.

Author : Norman Golb
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456608422

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Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? by Norman Golb Pdf

Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online. Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy. Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls cannot be the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as various earlier scholars had claimed, but are in all likelihood the remains of libraries of various Jewish groups, smuggled out of Jerusalem and hidden in desert caves during the Roman siege of 70 A. D. Contributing to the enduring debate sparked by the book's original publication in 1995, this digital edition contains additional material reporting on new developments that have led a series of major Israeli and European archaeologists to support Golb's basic conclusions. In its second half, the book offers a detailed analysis of the workings of the scholarly monopoly that controlled the Scrolls for many years, and discusses Golb's role in the struggle to make the texts available to the public. Pleading for an end to academic politics and a commitment to the search for truth in scrolls scholarship, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? sets a new standard for studies in intertestamental history "This book is 'must reading'.... It demonstrates how a particular interpretation of an ancient site and particular readings of ancient documents became a straitjacket for subsequent discussion of what is arguably the most widely publicized set of discoveries in the history of biblical archaeology...." Dr. Gregory T. Armstrong, 'Church History' Golb "gives us much more than just a fresh and convincing interpretation of the origin and significance of the Qumran Scrolls. His book is also... a fascinating case-study of how an idee fixe, for which there is no real historical justification, has for over 40 years dominated an elite coterie of scholars controlling the Scrolls...." Daniel O'Hara, 'New Humanist'