The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible (Biblia.com)

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The Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran provide the oldest, best, and most direct witness we have to the origins of the Hebrew Bible. Prior to the discovery of the Scrolls, scholars had textual evidence for only a single, late period in the history of the biblical text, leading them to believe that the text was uniform. The Scrolls, however, provide documentary evidence a thousand years older than all...

James Sanders has been one of the leading voices in the last third of this century reflecting on the relationship between the text and canon of the First Testament, and I thank him for being a catalyst, teacher, and conversation partner for my own thinking.1 The purpose of this study is to reflect further on the interrelationships between a number of topics for which he has made contributions. Can we gain further focus on the

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