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
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. New ideas and perspectives are percolating among the small group of scholars who dedicate...
by hadassah | Sep 14, 2016 | The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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 was Israel’s most famous archaeologist.a The Temple Scroll is the longest of...
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...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | The Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
From Text to Tradition The Dead Sea Scrolls Historical surveys Shaye Cohen. “Roman Domination- The Jewish Revolt and the Destruction of the Second Temple.” Primary sources Habakkuk Pesher I-IX- The Coming of the Final Age (Martinez) The Scroll of the War of the...
