by hadassah | Sep 18, 2016 | The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Gigantic Dimensions of the Visionary Temple in the Temple Scroll, By Magen Broshi The Temple Scroll and its contents have already been described at some length for BAR readers by the scroll’s editor, the late Yigael Yadin. Until his untimely death in 1984,...
by hadassah | Sep 15, 2016 | A Short History of the Dead Sea Scrolls and What They Tell Us, The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Lawrence H. Schiffman. “The Significance of the Scrolls,” Bible Review (6:5),1990. The second generation of scholars—or is it the third?—offers a new perspective on the texts from the Qumran caves Dead Sea Scroll scholarship is undergoing a virtual revolution....
by hadassah | Sep 14, 2016 | The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll On August 1, 1960, I received a letter from a man who identified himself as a Virginia clergyman. The letter stated that the writer was in a position to negotiate the sale of “important,...
by hadassah | Sep 14, 2016 | The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Gigantic Dimensions of the Visionary Temple in the Temple Scroll The Temple Scroll and its contents have already been described at some length for BAR readers by the scroll’s editor, the late Yigael Yadin. Until his untimely death in 1984, Professor Yadin...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Sectarian Literature, The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Temple Scroll LVI-LVII: The Law of the King (Martinez) The Temple Scroll is a rewriting and reediting of the Torah from the command to build the Temple at the end of Exodus through the end of the laws of Deuteronomy. This part of the scroll emphasizes the...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Greco-Roman Period Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991. The term Dead Sea Scrolls designates a corpus of manuscripts which have been discovered in the last forty years in the Judean Desert in caves along the Dead...
