James C. VanderKam is a scholar of Second Temple Judaism and one of the editors responsible for the official publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and this book, published by the academic religious press William B. Eerdmans, is an accessible synthesis of what the scrolls actually contain and what they show about the Qumran community and early Judaism. Its strength is that VanderKam writes with direct editorial familiarity with the manuscripts themselves rather than at secondhand, correcting popular misconceptions about the scrolls along the way. Aimed at general but serious readers rather than specialists, its limit is depth on any single manuscript, a reader wanting exhaustive textual analysis of one specific scroll needs a dedicated critical edition rather than this survey, which is built to cover the collection as a whole.
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James VanderKam's standard scholarly introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls, covering texts such as the Community Rule, the War Scroll, Jubilees and 1 Enoch; a general introduction to the whole corpus, so deep textual analysis of one scroll may need a source focused on that scroll. NotesJames VanderKam's standard scholarly introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls, covering the discovery, content and significance of texts such as the Community Rule, the War Scroll, Jubilees and 1 Enoch found among them. Use for established scholarly facts about the Dead Sea Scrolls collection and these named texts' place within it; a general introduction to the whole corpus, so a claim requiring deep textual analysis of one specific scroll may need a source focused on that scroll alone.
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AuthorJames C. VanderKam
PublisherWilliam B. Eerdmans
Publication Year2010
URLhttps://archive.org/details/deadseascrollsto00jame
Source TypeScholarly work
Claims Backed By This Source (100 claims)
This source backs 100 claims across the atlas. As facts: 86 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 11 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Scriptures & Texts, 51 claims: 44 well-attested, 1 holds, 6 general references.
- Articles, 18 claims: 18 well-attested.
- Textual Witnesses, 17 claims: 14 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Custodians & Museums, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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A Forty-Year Campaign in Seven LotsA Thousand Years Closer, and What ChangedA Year of 364 Days and the Quarrel It CausedAn Inventory Hammered into MetalAramaic at Qumran, Greek in Egypt, Geez in EthiopiaCustody After a Border MovedCut Open in ManchesterFifteen Copies in the Caves, a Canon in EthiopiaGenesis Rewritten, with the Gaps Filled InHow a Scroll of Metal Reached AmmanQumran and CanonQuoted in Jude, Lost to Europe, Scripture in EthiopiaReal Hoard, Temple Treasure, or FolkloreTen Copies, Ten Versions, and the Essene QuestionThe Two Spirits and the Sons of LightTrumpets, Standards, and the Purity of the CampTwo Years of Probation, a Common Purse, and a Scale of PenaltiesWhat the Scroll Is, and What It Is Not Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
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