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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Maps
The area surrounding the Dead Sea, showing Qumran
The Caves of Qumran
The Story of the Scrolls
Part One
I: The State of Biblical Studies before Qumran
1. The Portrait of the Story-teller
2. Biblical Studies in the 1940s
Postscript: Biblical Studies in the Roman Catholic Church
II: Epoch-making Discoveries and Early Blunders
1. The Original Find and its Sequels
2. Identifying the Manuscript Cave
3. Ten More Caves Yield their Secrets
4. The Excavations of the Ruins of Qumran (1951–6)
5. The Qumran Cemetery
Postscript: Earlier manuscript discoveries in the Jericho area
III: The École Biblique, Seedbed of Future Troubles
1. The Creation of the Official Editorial Team (1953–4)
2. The Initial Phase of Scrolls Scholarship and Early Controversies
Postscript: Qumran and the Riddle of Christian Origins
IV: Somnolence – Politics – Scandal
V: The Battle over the Scrolls and its Aftermath
1. Growing Frustration
2. An Israeli Editor-in-Chief
3. Outbreak of Revolution
Postscript: The Nonsensical Theory of a Vatican Conspiracy
Part Two
VI: What is New in the Non-Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls?
1. Qumran and Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Manuscripts
2. Qumran and Previously Known Jewish Literature
3. The Hitherto Unknown Mainstream Jewish Literature
VII: The Novelty of the Sectarian Scrolls
A. THE RULES
B. PRAYER, WORSHIP AND BELIEF
C. HISTORY AND BIBLE INTERPRETATION
D. WISDOM LITERATURE
APPENDIX: MISCELLANEOUS TEXTS
VIII: Unfinished Business: Archaeology – Group Identity – History
1. Fresh Approaches to Archaeology
2. Identifying the Qumran Community
3. The History of the Qumran-Essene Community
IX: The Qumran Revolution in the Study of Biblical and Post-biblical Judaism and Early Christianity
1. Judaism
2. Christianity
X: Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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