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The Dead Sea scrolls in their historical context
Title:
The Dead Sea scrolls in their historical context
Author:
University of Edinburgh. Centre for Christian Origins.
Publication Information:
Edinburgh : T&T Clark, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
ix, 309 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Papers from a conference held on May 5-6, 1998, New College, Edinburgh, hosted by the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Edinburgh under the aegis of the Centre for Christian Studies. (Preface)
Language:
English
Contents:
Dead Sea sect and other Jews : commonalities, overlaps and differences / Wicked priest or the liar? / What did you go out to see? : John the Baptist, the Scrolls and late Second Temple Judaism / Qumran Biblical scrolls : the scriptures of late Second Temple Judaism / Qumran evidence for a Biblical standard text and for non-standard and parabiblical texts / E pluribus unum : textual variety and definitive interpretation in the Qumran scrolls / Halakhah and sectarianism in the Dead Sea scrolls / Story of Joseph and the Book of Jubilees / Sabbatical chronologies in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature / Qumran calendars : theory and practice / Place of the Book of Jubilees at Qumran and beyond / Nature of messianism in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls / Judaisms in the Dead Sea scrolls : the case of the Messiah / Branch in the last days : observations on the new covenant before and after the Messiah / Dead Sea scrolls and merkavah mysticism
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ISBN:
9780567087072

9780567087591
Format :
Book