A01=Edmund Wilson
Alexander Jannaeus
ancient Jewish sects
Author_Edmund Wilson
biblical manuscript analysis
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Copper Scrolls
Dead Sea
Dead Sea Documents
Dead Sea Manuscripts
Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Sect
early Christian origins
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Essene influence on Christianity
Habakkuk Commentary
Hebrew University
John Allegro
Jordanian Jerusalem
Judaean Desert
King David Hotel
Masoretic Text
Nahum Pesher
Palestine Archaeological Museum
Palestine Museum
Professor Yadin
Qumran community studies
Raphael Israeli
religious historiography
Revised Standard Version
Revue Biblique
Second Temple Judaism
sect
Syrian Jacobite Church
Wicked Priest
Young Man
Zadokite Fragments
Product details
- ISBN 9781138526440
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 972 documents discovered between 1946 and 1956, are of immeasurable religious and historical significance. They include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical-era documents. The manuscripts shed considerable light on forms of Judaism never known before. These forms contain hints of Christianity, or as put elsewhere, it was the Judaism amid which Christ and his first followers lived, thought, and wrote. Edmund Wilson's book is a record of this great scholarly find.Wilson was a prolific literary critic and social commentator, not an academic, and therefore Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls reads like a journalist's reportage. This unique personal account weaves together threads of folklore, history, and intrigue. As Leon Edel writes in his foreword, 'Reading him, it is not difficult to imagine the ardor with which Edmund Wilson pursued his complex subject; it was the kind of subject he had always liked best, involving as it did history, politics, ancient lore, and all his faculties for imaginative reconstruction and historical analysis. . . . No book quite like this has been written in our century.'The scrolls of the Essenes, and the history of this Jewish sect's possible antecedence to Christianity, led the author to Israel and to the revelations contained in the scrolls. This book contains his resulting account of the scrolls' history. Originally published in 1978, this edition of Wilson's classic is made contemporary with a new introduction by Raphael Israeli, which illustrates the ongoing academic controversy surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls.
