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Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered more than half a century ago, have proved to be the most important modern discovery related to biblical literature, Judaism of late antiquity, and nascent Christianity. The scrolls have made an important contribution to our understanding of the development of the text and canon of Scripture, including such issues as textual preservation and transmission. They have...

God in the burning bush (Exod. 3:1–12). It is to the wilderness that God summons his people to worship him with sacrifice (3:18). In fact, Moses declares to Pharaoh: “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness’ ” (5:1). It is in the wilderness that the people of Israel witness the glory of the Lord (16:10). In the wilderness the Lord gives the people manna (16:14, 32: “I fed you in the wilderness”; cf. Deut. 8:16: “who fed you in the
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