Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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RELIGION/HISTORY The fReshesr, mosr eleganrly tuRirren oF rhe necu öooks aőour rhe ORigins oF rhe Dead Sea ScroIIs. -KirküS ReviedJS (sraRRed Revieiu) * i^ince their discovery in the Qumran caves beginning in 1947, the Dead Sea ScroIIs 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 fringé sect, as other scholars have claimed, but written by many different groups of Jews and then smuggled out of Jerusalem's libraries before the Román siege of A.D. 70. Golb alsó unravels the mystery behind the scholarly monopoly that controlled the scrolls for many years, and discusses his role as a key player in the successful struggle to make the scrolls widely available to both scholars and students. And he pleads passionately for an end to academic politics and a renewed commitment to the search for truth in scroll scholarship. "An... Tovább

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RELIGION/HISTORY The fReshesr, mosr eleganrly tuRirren oF rhe necu öooks aőour rhe ORigins oF rhe Dead Sea ScroIIs. -KirküS ReviedJS (sraRRed Revieiu) * i^ince their discovery in the Qumran caves beginning in 1947, the Dead Sea ScroIIs 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 fringé sect, as other scholars have claimed, but written by many different groups of Jews and then smuggled out of Jerusalem's libraries before the Román siege of A.D. 70. Golb alsó unravels the mystery behind the scholarly monopoly that controlled the scrolls for many years, and discusses his role as a key player in the successful struggle to make the scrolls widely available to both scholars and students. And he pleads passionately for an end to academic politics and a renewed commitment to the search for truth in scroll scholarship. "An impressive, meticulously argued piece of scholarly detective work that reopens the question of the scrolls' origin and meaning." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Dr. Norman Golb has achieved worldwide renown through his manuscript discoveries and historical writings. A prolific author and twice a Guggenheim Fellow, he is the first holder of the Rosenberger Chair in Jewish History and Civilization at the University of Chicago and a voting member of its celebrated Orientál Institute. Vissza