Biblical Languages: Dead Sea Scrolls

A six-part program of lectures on the Dead Sea scrolls by scholars with hands-on experience deciphering and interpreting these 2,000-year-old documents. Gives the history of their discovery and acquisition and relates ancient cultural and religious history brought to light by their interpretation, including roots of Christianity and Judaism.

The Dead Sea scrolls, believed to be written by the Essenes or the Qumran community, were discovered by a sheperd boy in 1947. The scrolls are the oldest known Biblical manuscripts in existence, offering insight into the birth of Christianity, and are considered the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century. Yet since their discovery, scholars have kept the exact contents of the scrolls a closely guarded secret. Why? Enigma of the Dead Sea scrolls examines this controversy.

Discusses the Dead Sea scrolls, a combination of the oldest written version of the Bible and the rules of the Essene community. Talks about the discovery of the scrolls and about their restoration, and examines evidence that Qumran was the site of the Essene community.

Contents: vol. 3B. Minor prophets. Includes the relevant passages from the Masoretic text, the Septuagint, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the commentaries from the Qumran collection. A few other exceptional reference texts are also included.

This volume collects twelve recent studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls, including a new essay on Qumran messianism, by Joseph Fitzmyer, a pioneer in the field of Scrolls research. Well know for his landmark work in Aramaic studies and in the Semitic background of the New Testament, Fitzmyer here explores many of the important topics that the discovery of the Scrolls have brought to light bearing on the interpretation of biblical themes and the rise of early Christianity. All of the articles in this volume have been updated to take into account recent discussions.

In this important collection of studies, copublished by Eerdmans and Brill, one of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls outlines a comprehensive theory that reconstructs the complex development of the ancient texts that eventually came to form the Old Testament.

This groundbreaking book accurately presents the texts on the leather papyrus of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a state-of-the-art manner. Here initial, medial, or final forms in anomalous positions are reproduced precisely as seen, with the original text and the translation on facing pages. Photographs.
Contents: v. 1. Rule of the community and related documents. -- v.2 Damascus Document, War Scroll and related documents -- v. 3. Damascus Document II, Some works of the Toray, and related documents. -- v. 4A. Pseudepigraphic and non-Masoretic Psalms and prayers -- v. 4B. Angelic liturgy: songs of the Sabbath sacrifice -- v. 6B. Pesharim, other commentaries, and related documents.

"This book offers a fresh transcription and an English translation of all the relevant non-biblical texts found at Qumran, arranged by serial number from Cave 1 to Cave 11"--P. ix.

This is the almost complete 40 volume series that serves as the editio princeps for the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is published by Oxford University Press. HCU has selected volumes in this series.

This landmark reference work is the first of its kind. Featuring 450 articles by an international community of scholars it is the definitive account of what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls--their history, relevance, meaning, and the controversies that surround them.Discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd, the collection of 800 manuscripts is older than any other collection of manuscripts of the Hebrew Scriptures by almost one thousand years. What do the scrolls tell us about the people who wrote them? What do they tell us about early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism? How do they confirm or contradict what we thought we knew about the Bible?With contributions from 100 distinguished scholars representing diverse traditions and fields of learning, this volume offers the most comprehensive critical synthesis of current knowledge about the Dead Sea Scrolls--and their historical, archaeological, linguistic, and religious contexts. Written in non-technical language this reference work provides authoritative answers and information for all readers.

Introduction in English, text in Hebrew and Aramaic.

This is a series published by E.J. Brill which presents scholarly translation and evaluation of Biblical texts from the papyrii and manuscripts of Wadi Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and related bibliographic, linguistic, cultural and historical aspects of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. Books from this series are scattered through the book stacks according to the subjects that they cover. A number of the volumes are e-books from ebrary.