The complete Dead Sea scrolls in English
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Author
Publication
1998 - Allen Lane/Penguin Press, New York, N.Y., U.S.A, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
162,000 words, Guess
Page Count
648 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecompletedeadseas00verm
- Internet Archivecompletedeadseas0000unse_i2k7
- ISBN-100140278079
- ISBN-139780140278071
- Library of Congress Control Number97003722
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number53027371
- OCLC Control Number36330880
- Better World Books9780140278071
- Open LibraryOL24372022M
Classifications
- DDC296.155
- LCCBM487.A3 V4 1998
- LCCBM487.A3 V4 1997
Description
Nothing in the modern study of ancient Judaism and the birth of Christianity can match the 50-year saga of these documents, discovered by a lowly goatherd in the spring of 1947. Now, after years of academic debate and maneuvering as tense as any espionage novel, the Dead Sea Scrolls and fragments are at last available in their entirety, in the established standard English version. The texts which endure as the nonbiblical center of Judeo-Christianity & the foundation of Western literary traditions. Provides not only reliable, direct access to these intriguing documents but a wealth of scholarly information & an outline of the history surrounding them.
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