The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The scrolls and Christian originsJames H. Charlesworth Baylor University Press, 2006 - 734 pages The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three volumes, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity. |
Contents
John the Baptizer and the Dead Sea Scrolls | 1 |
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Historical Jesus | 37 |
The Synoptic Gospels and the Dead Sea Scrolls | 75 |
The Impact of Selected Qumran Texts | 153 |
Qumrans Some Works of Torah | 187 |
How the Scrolls Impacted Scholarship on Hebrews | 203 |
The Dream of a New Jerusalem at Qumran | 231 |
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Apocalypse of John | 255 |
Qumran and the New Testament | 357 |
The Coming of the Righteous One | 381 |
Qumran and Supersessionism | 397 |
The Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls | 407 |
Bibliography | 463 |
Author Index | 585 |
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About the Differing Approach to | 281 |
Economic Justice and Nonretaliation in | 319 |
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