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The Dead Sea Scrolls Today
Author(s): VanderKam, James C.
ISBN10:  0802807364
ISBN13:  9780802807366
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  4/1/1994
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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SummaryTable of ContentsEditorial Reviews
An eminent Dead Sea Scrolls researcher offers a popular, up-to-date introduction to the scrolls and the ongoing debate that surrounds their study.
Preface xi
Discoveries
1(28)
Introduction
1(1)
The Qumran Discoveries
2(27)
The First Cave
3(1)
The Seven Original Scrolls
3(5)
The Cave Itself
8(2)
The Other Caves
10(2)
The Ruins of Qumran
12(1)
The Buildings
13(1)
The Cemeteries
14(1)
Methods for Dating the Discoveries
15(1)
Methods for Dating the Scrolls
16(1)
Paleography
16(1)
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
17(2)
Internal Allusions
19(1)
Methods for Dating the Other Archeological Remains
20(1)
Carbon 14
20(1)
Pottery
21(1)
Coins
21(2)
Alternative Theories
23(1)
The Ruins of a Fortress
23(1)
A Villa with a Dining Room
24(5)
Survey of the Manuscripts
29(42)
Biblical Texts
29(5)
Biblical Scrolls
30(2)
Targums
32(1)
Tefillin and Mezuzot
33(1)
Apocryphal And Pseudepigraphal Texts
34(9)
Apocrypha
34(1)
Tobit
34(1)
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus or the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira)
35(1)
Letter of Jeremiah (=Baruch 6)
36(1)
Psalm 151
36(1)
Pseudepigrapha
36(1)
Enoch or 1 Enoch
37(2)
Jubilees
39(1)
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
40(2)
New Pseudepigrapha
42(1)
Other Texts
43(28)
Commentaries on Biblical Material
44(1)
Continuous Commentaries
44(2)
The Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab)
46(3)
The Nahum Commentary (4Q169)
49(1)
The Commentary on Psalm 37 (4Q171, 173)
50(1)
Thematic Commentaries
51(1)
The Florilegium (4Q174)
51(1)
The Testimonia (4Q175)
52(1)
The Melchizedek Text (11QMelch)
53(1)
A Commentary on Genesis (4Q252)
54(1)
Paraphrases
55(1)
Legal Texts
55(1)
The Damascus Document
56(1)
The Manual of Discipline
57(2)
The Temple Scroll (11QTemple)
59(1)
Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT)
60(1)
Writings for Worship
60(1)
The Cycle of Worship
61(1)
Liturgical References
61(1)
Calendar Texts
62(1)
Poetic Compositions
62(1)
The Thanksgiving Hymns
62(2)
Other Poems
64(1)
Eschatological Works
64(1)
The War Rule
65(2)
Texts about the New Jerusalem
67(1)
Wisdom Texts
67(1)
4Q184
67(1)
4Q185
67(1)
Others
68(1)
The Copper Scroll (3Q15)
68(1)
Documentary Texts
69(2)
The Identification of the Qumran Group
71(28)
The Case For The Essene Hypothesis
71(16)
The Evidence from Pliny the Elder
71(4)
The Qumran Texts and Essene Beliefs and Practices
75(1)
Theology
76(1)
Determinism
76(2)
The Afterlife
78(3)
Practice
81(1)
Nonuse of Oil
81(1)
Property
82(2)
The Pure Meal
84(2)
Bodily Functions
86(1)
Spitting
87(1)
Problems With The Essene Hypothesis
87(5)
Entry Procedures
88(2)
Marriage
90(1)
The Name Essene
91(1)
Other Theories
92(7)
Sadducees
93(2)
Jerusalem Origins
95(4)
The Qumran Essenes
99(22)
A Sketch Of The Qumran Group's History
99(9)
The Pre-Qumran Period
100(4)
The Qumran Period
104(1)
Phase Ia
104(2)
Phase Ib
106(2)
Phase II
108(1)
A Sketch Of Qumran Thought And Practice
108(13)
Predeterminism
109(1)
The Two Ways
110(1)
The Community of the New Covenant
111(1)
Scriptural Interpretation
112(1)
The Latter Days
113(1)
Special Laws
113(1)
The Universe
114(2)
Worship
116(1)
The End and the Messiahs
117(4)
The Scrolls and the Old Testament
121(38)
The Text Of The Old Testament
121(13)
The Period of the Old Testament
122(1)
The Pre-Qumran Textual Witnesses
123(1)
The Masoretic Text
123(1)
The Septuagint
123(2)
The Samaritan Pentateuch
125(1)
Qumran Contributions
126(1)
The Great Isaiah Scroll
126(1)
Qumran Agreements with the Septuagint against the Masoretic Text
127(1)
Minor Examples
127(1)
Major Examples
128(1)
Jeremiah
128(2)
Samuel
130(1)
An Unusual Case
130(2)
Theories about Textual Development
132(1)
A Theory of Local Texts
132(1)
A Theory of Textual Plurality and Variety
133(1)
New Information About The History Of Some Texts
134(8)
The Book of Psalms
135(4)
Daniel 4
139(3)
A Canon of Scripture
142(17)
Evidence outside Qumran
142(1)
The Prologue to Sirach (the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira)
142(2)
2 Macc 2:13-15
144(1)
Philo, On the Contemplative Life 25
145(1)
Luke 24:44
145(1)
Matt 23:35
146(1)
4 Ezra 14:23-48
146(1)
Josephus, Against Apion 1.37-43
147(2)
Evidence from Qumran
149(1)
Criteria
150(1)
Authoritative Books
150(3)
Books Quoted as Authorities
153(1)
Other Authoritative Books
153(1)
Jubilees
153(2)
1 Enoch
155(1)
The Temple Scroll
156(3)
The Scrolls and the New Testament
159(28)
Introduction
159(3)
Similarities Between The Scrolls And The New Testament
162(25)
Language and Text
163(1)
Language
163(1)
The Many
164(1)
The Guardian
165(1)
Other Examples
165(1)
Text
166(1)
New Testament Papyri in Cave 7?
166(1)
Qumran Words and Phrases in the New Testament
166(1)
The Sermon on the Mount
167(1)
Characters
168(1)
John the Baptist
168(2)
Others
170(2)
Practices
172(1)
Shared Property
172(1)
The Meal
173(2)
Calendar
175(1)
Eschatology
176(1)
Messianism
177(3)
Biblical Interpretation
180(2)
Teachings
182(5)
Controversies about the Dead Sea Scrolls
187(16)
Editing And Publishing The Scrolls
187(6)
Events Since 1989
193(10)
Index 203(6)
Maps 209
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 Cahners Business Information.

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