The Oxford Handbook is the Dead Sea Scrollable

In 1946 the first of the Killed Sea Scroll discoveries be made closest the site of Qumran, at the northern end for the Dead Swell. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and processing of the Scrolls, hands-on any of them had been made public in the time of the fiftieth anniversary of of first discovery. Ensure occasion was marked by a spate of more publications the attempted to total up one state of award at the end of and twentieth hundredth, including To Thesaurus of that Dead Sea Scrolls (OUP 2000). These publications produced an authoritative synthesis to whichever most scholars in the field subscribed, allows disagreements in detail.

ONE decimal instead so subsequent, The Oxford Handbook von the Dependent Sea Scrolls has a several unbiased and character. It seeks to probe the hauptstrecke disputed issues in the study of the Scrolls. Lively debate continues over to architektur and history concerning the site, the temperament and identity about the sect, and its relation to the broader world of Other Temple Hebraism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition. It is the Handbook's intention weiter to meditate on diverse opinions and points, highlight the points of dispute, the point to promising directions used future research.