Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search For The Secret Of Qumran
A History, Religion, Nonfiction book. An important contribution to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Both a compelling argument for...
Since their discovery in the Qumran caves beginning in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the object of intense fascination and extreme controversy. Here Professor Norman Golb intensifies the debate over the scrolls' origins, arguing that they were not the work of a small desert-dwelling fringe sect, as other scholars have claimed, but written by many different groups of Jews and then smuggled out of Jerusalem's libraries before the Roman siege of A.D. 70.
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- Pages: 480 pages
- ISBN: 9780684806921 / 684806924
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Sorta. Like my other 'currently reading' -- this is gonna take a while. Golb totally convinced me that his interpretation, which cuts counter to the mainline theory, has far more explanatory power and doesn't require new ad hoc patches every time a new text is translated. And while I agree the texts have been mightily mishandled by the official cadre, I don't agree with Golb's decision to dedicate the second... An important contribution to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Both a compelling argument for the author's explanation of the existence of the Scrolls, and a scathing indictment of the entrenchment of ideas by an academic elite.
