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The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Documents that Shed a Brilliant New Light on Christianity
Author: A. Powell Davies
Publisher: Signet, republished
Davies, A. Powell. The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Documents that Shed a Brilliant New Light on Christianity (published in 1956 by Mentor Books, an imprint of The New American Library of World Literature Inc., 501 Madison Ave., New York City, NY 10022). Offhand, I don’t recall if this book came from my grandfather, a faithful gospel preacher, his sister, my great-aunt who was much more liberal in her religious views than he, or some other source, but with an interest in anything related to a study of the Bible, I decided to read it.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of some 981 different texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 in eleven caves in the immediate vicinity of the Hellenistic-period Jewish settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the eastern Judaean Desert near the Dead Sea. The consensus is that the Qumran Caves Scrolls date from c. 408 B.C. to A. D. 318. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the third oldest known surviving manuscripts of works included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism.
They did a lot to confirm the accuracy of the Massoretic Text of the Hebrew Old Testament. The book’s description of the finding and examination of the scrolls was quite interesting and informative, but the problem arose when discussing the “meaning.”
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