The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Hardcover

Shanks, Hershel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679457577 ISBN 13: 9780679457572

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1998

Synopsis

In time for the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the distinguished editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review explains, in plain English, their history and their significance for the origins of Christianity. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

About the Author:

Hershel Shanks is founder and editor of Biblical Archaeology Review and Bible Review and editor of Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of essays on the controversy surrounding the interpretation and dissemination of the scrolls. He is the author of Judaism in Stone: The Archaeology of Ancient Synagogues and Jerusalem: An Archaeological Biography. In 1991 he was the first to publish excerpts of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments, which had been secreted by a small coterie of scholars who then controlled them.

Synopsis:

On the 50th anniversary of the dead sea scrolls, the first complete account - from their discovery through the controversy surrounding their deciphering and interpretaton - by the distinguished Editor of 'Biblical Archaeology Review', who was himself involved in the drama.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679457577
• ISBN 13: 9780679457572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384