An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls

by VERMES GEZA

• ISBN13: 9780800632298
• ISBN10: 080063229X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

A thorough revision of a classic work on these crucial extant texts.

Author Biography

Geza Vermes is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. He has been an international leader in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls research for more than forty years.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. viii
Bibliography	p. xiii
Major editions of Qumran manuscripts	p. xiii
General bibliography	p. xvii
Maps	p. xxi
The Dead Sea Scrolls: 1947-1999	p. 1
A bird's-eye view of Dead Sea Scrolls research	p. 1
The present state of Dead Sea Scrolls studies	p. 9
Authenticity and Dating of the Scrolls	p. 22
Archaeology and the Scrolls	p. 25
Palaeography and the Scrolls	p. 28
Historical allusions in the Scrolls	p. 30
The Qumran Library	p. 32
The Rules	p. 32
Poetic and liturgical texts	p. 45
Wisdom texts	p. 59
Bible interpretation and apocryphal works	p. 63
Miscellaneous compositions	p. 91
The Community	p. 94
Identification of the Community	p. 114
The Sadducees	p. 115
The Pharisees	p. 117
The Zealots	p. 119
The Essenes	p. 122
The History of the Community	p. 127
Inter-testamental Jewish history: 200 BCE-70 CE	p. 128
The history of the Essenes	p. 132
The Religious Ideas of the Community	p. 145
The Covenant	p. 146
Election and holy life in the Community of the Covenant	p. 151
Worship in the Community of the Covenant	p. 156
Future expectations in the Community of the Covenant	p. 163
Qumran and Biblical Studies	p. 170
The text of the Old Testament	p. 170
The Pseudepigrapha	p. 181
The New Testament	p. 182
Scrolls Catalogue	p. 192
Notes	p. 218
Index of Modern Authors	p. 247
General Index	p. 252
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