The Dead Sea Scrolls -- A Short History - Softcover

Fields, Weston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004157603 ISBN 13: 9789004157606

Publisher: Brill, 2006

Synopsis

Who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls? When and where were they discovered? How were they saved? Who has them now? Will more be discovered? Have all the scrolls been published? Are some still hidden away? Were there conspiracies to suppress some scrolls? How do the scrolls affect Christianity and Judaism? How similar are the biblical scrolls to our Bible today? These and other questions are answered in The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Short History, which offers information from exclusive interviews and unpublished archives.

About this title

About the Author:

Weston W. Fields, Ph.D., has been Executive Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation in Jerusalem since 1991. He taught at Grace College and Theological Seminary for ten years and at the Institute of Holy Land Studies (now Jerusalem University College) for seven years. For the past fifteen years he has worked closely with the editors of the official publication of the scrolls. Since 1999 he has traveled extensively in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States in order to interview everyone from the first generation of scrolls scholars then alive, including those who discovered scrolls in the 1950s, or were the first to reconstruct them. As a result of these personal meetings he has amassed a large and diverse collection of personal letters, papers, and archives related to the first scrolls scholars, especially the famous Qumran Cave 4 Team.

Review:

I read with much pleasure your little book, (small in pages and great in content!). You managed to explain these difficult subjects with great clarity and the illustrations are delightful. --Prof. Colette Sirat, Centre National de la reserche scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche de d'Histoire des Textes, Section Hebraique (in Paris)

I am very pleased with it. The date line is a major addition to our knowledge of scroll history. It is beautifully illustrated (including a lost picture of me). And the discussions of the scrolls importance and significance are deftly done. --Frank Moore Cross

What a treasure!  One of its special features is the selection of historic photos, many of which I had not seen before. --Dr. Wesley H. Brown

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004157603
• ISBN 13: 9789004157606
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128