The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Davies, Philip R
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls - London Thames and Hudson 2002 - 216p
includes index and biblioraphy
I The scrolls revealled Early dead sea discoveries .......16 The damascus document .....18 Editing the scrolls: The first fifty years ......22 The first editors .....30 II The ancient world of the scrolls The historical framework: From babylon to barkokhba .....38 Jewish religious life .....46 Jewish parties and sects .....54 IIII Inside the scrolls Making a scroll ....66 Scripts and writing atyles .....68 Carbon-14 Dating .....74 Reconstructing a scroll .....76 Cave 1 .....82 The rule scroll ....82 The community rule .....82 The rule of the congregation .....89 The rule of blessings .....90 The war scroll ......92 The thanksgiving hymns .....94 The biblical commentaries ......96 The genesis apocryphon .....100 The book of jubilees ....102 Cave 2 New jerusalem ....106 Cave 3 .....108 The copper scroll ....108 Cave 4 ......114 The commentaries on genesis ....116 Targums to leviticus and job .....118 The reworked pentateuch .....120 Apocryphon of joshua ....122 Tobit .....124 The books of enoch .....126 Other ancient works preserved in cave 4 ....128 The florilegium ....129 The testimonia ....130 Ordinances ....132 The calendar texts ...133 The halakhic letter ....136 The wisdom texts ....140 Poetry, psalms and prayers ....144 The songs of the sabbath sacrifice ....146 Fragments of the damascus document ....149 Documentary texts .....151 Caves 5 to 10 ....152 Cave 11 .....154 The temple scroll ....156 The psalms scroll ....160 Melchizedek .....162 Biblical manuscripts from the qumran caves .....164 IV The qumran settlement The qumran settlement ....168 Recently discovered ostraca from qumran ....186 Scrolls, caves and ruins: Are they connected? .....188 V The meaning of the scrolls The dead sea scrolls and judaism ......194 The dead sea scrolls and early christianity .....200 Who wrote the scrolls? .....204
9780500283714 2002
B63 / D286
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls - London Thames and Hudson 2002 - 216p
includes index and biblioraphy
I The scrolls revealled Early dead sea discoveries .......16 The damascus document .....18 Editing the scrolls: The first fifty years ......22 The first editors .....30 II The ancient world of the scrolls The historical framework: From babylon to barkokhba .....38 Jewish religious life .....46 Jewish parties and sects .....54 IIII Inside the scrolls Making a scroll ....66 Scripts and writing atyles .....68 Carbon-14 Dating .....74 Reconstructing a scroll .....76 Cave 1 .....82 The rule scroll ....82 The community rule .....82 The rule of the congregation .....89 The rule of blessings .....90 The war scroll ......92 The thanksgiving hymns .....94 The biblical commentaries ......96 The genesis apocryphon .....100 The book of jubilees ....102 Cave 2 New jerusalem ....106 Cave 3 .....108 The copper scroll ....108 Cave 4 ......114 The commentaries on genesis ....116 Targums to leviticus and job .....118 The reworked pentateuch .....120 Apocryphon of joshua ....122 Tobit .....124 The books of enoch .....126 Other ancient works preserved in cave 4 ....128 The florilegium ....129 The testimonia ....130 Ordinances ....132 The calendar texts ...133 The halakhic letter ....136 The wisdom texts ....140 Poetry, psalms and prayers ....144 The songs of the sabbath sacrifice ....146 Fragments of the damascus document ....149 Documentary texts .....151 Caves 5 to 10 ....152 Cave 11 .....154 The temple scroll ....156 The psalms scroll ....160 Melchizedek .....162 Biblical manuscripts from the qumran caves .....164 IV The qumran settlement The qumran settlement ....168 Recently discovered ostraca from qumran ....186 Scrolls, caves and ruins: Are they connected? .....188 V The meaning of the scrolls The dead sea scrolls and judaism ......194 The dead sea scrolls and early christianity .....200 Who wrote the scrolls? .....204
9780500283714 2002
B63 / D286