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Jacket photograph: The Dead Sea Scrolls—Fragments of the War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness. Scroll found in Qumran Cave No. 1, Israel. Photograph by Z. Radovan / Bible Land Pictures.

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Collins, John Joseph, 1946–

  The Dead Sea scrolls : a biography / John J. Collins.

         pages cm — (Lives of great religious books)

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-691-14367-5 (hardcover)

  1. Dead Sea scrolls. I. Title.

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