The Dead Sea Scrolls (Essential Guide S.)

Contains new information about unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls with translations of key passages and recent discovery of the movement behind the Scrolls in their own words. See http://deadseascrolls.org/www/Site/thedss.php. In 1947 a Bedouin shepherd stumbled upon a cave near the Dead Sea a settlement now called Qumran to the east of Jerusalem. This cave along with the others located nearby contained jars holding hundreds of scrolls and fragments of scrolls of texts both biblical and nonbiblical—in Hebrew Aramaic and Greek. The biblical scrolls would be the earliest evidence of the Hebrew Scriptures by hundreds of years; and the nonbiblical texts would shed dramatic light on one of the least-known periods of Jewish history. This find is the most important archaeological event in two thousand years of biblical studies.. Online supplement with indexes discussion questions Dead Sea Scrolls websites and links to study tools electronic resources and photographs: http://www.abingdonacademic.com/dsscrolls.