The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in EnglishOne of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along with an introduction to the history of the discovery and publication of each manuscript and the background necessary for placing each manuscript in its actual historical context. |
Contents
The Dead Sea Scrolls | xxxii |
GRAD | xliii |
The dispute over authenticity and antiquity | xlv |
Copyright | |
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English Florentino García Martínez No preview available - 1994 |
Common terms and phrases
4QMMT Aaron according altar angels Apocryphon Aramaic atone B. Z. Wacholder Baillet Belial biblical biblical manuscripts Blank bless blood Book of Jubilees Books of Enoch Cave CD-A children of Israel Community composition congregation copy covenant cubits Damascus Document Dead Sea Scrolls deeds defiled DJD III DJD VII earth Enoch enter eternal everlasting evil excavation Fascicle Three father feast flesh Frag fragment with remains Gamul gate glory God's half sevenths hand heart heavens Hebrew holy impure interpretation concerns J. T. Milik Jerusalem Jubilees Judah judgment justice king Kittim knowledge land light Lord M. G. Abegg manuscripts Moses night no-one offering path peace Pesher praise precepts priests purified Qumran remains of Dt rule Sea Scrolls Uncovered seven sons soul spirit Strugnell Teacher of Righteousness temple texts tion truth unclean Wacholder and M. G. walk whoever wicked wickedness wisdom wonderful words YHWH