The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Volume Three: The Scrolls and Christian Origins: The Second Princeton Symposium on Judaism and Christian Origins (Biblia.com)

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The recovery of 800 documents in the 11 caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries to date. The volumes in The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish...

present—and not the far-off future—is the end time, or the latter days.131 The pesharim (the Qumran biblical commentaries) interpret Scripture so that ancient prophecies do not point to the future; they explain the past, present, and near future of the Qumranites.132 The Thanksgiving Hymns breathe the air of end-time realization. This is singularly important, since only in the Fourth Gospel—in stark contrast with the eschatology of the Synoptics, Paul, 2 Peter, and Revelation—do we find a shift from

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