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Beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls
Title: Beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1121 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls
BEYOND THE DEAD SEA: THE ESSENES AND THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY
To paraphrase the Bobby Darin pop hit, "Somewhere, beyond the Dead Sea, there’s a religion waiting for me." There was a serious lack of documentation on Judaism practices prior to the birth of Christ, which made understanding the reasons behind the emergence of Christianity even more complex. Then, in 1947, while a young Arab boy, Muhammad ed-Dhib, was throwing stones at a cave, breaking a …showed first 75 words of 1121 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1121 total…Essenes and the Sadducees might be as dead as the Dead Sea itself, but as long as the scrolls remain, so, too, will their theological legacy.
Works Cited
Cross, Frank Moore Jr. "The Ancient Library of Qumran and
Modern Biblical Studies." New York: Doubleday, 1958.
Dupont- Sommer. "The Essene Writings From Qumran." Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1969.
Grundy, Robert H. "A Survey of The New Testament." Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.
Vermes, Giza. "The Dead Sea Scrolls." Cleveland: William
Collins, 1978.
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