THE ANCIENT LIBRARY OF QUMRAN AND MODERN BIBLICAL STUDIES.
Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday. 1958. Item #24187
8vo. 196 pages. Maps. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Qumran community; Dead Sea scrolls - relation to the New Testament. SERIES: The Haskell lectures, 1956-1957; Qumran is the area on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, with the first being found in 1947. In the 1950s, archaeologists realized that they were actually excavating a large complex. The oldest artifacts showed the community occupied during the 8th-7th century B. C. E. Iron Age, with later remnants from Greco-Roman times through about 135 C. E. The chronology of the Scrolls, found in caves nearby the complex, "agrees remarkably well" with the complex itself; "[a] close connection between the occupants of the building and the manuscripts in the caves is cogently indicated. "(Bruce, EJ) with Ex library, letters partially worn off spine, very good condition. (BIBLE-3-8).
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