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An eminent Dead Sea Scrolls researcher, James C. VanderKam offers a popular, up-to-date introduction to the scrolls and the ongoing debate that surrounds their study. Chapters cover all the major subjects of scroll inquiry: the discoveries of the manuscripts and nearby archaeological remains during the 1940s and 1950s and the methods used to date them, the content and character of the scrolls...

later accidentally blinded. He sent his son Tobias to get the family treasure, which had been hid with a relative. Although Tobit and Tobias did not know it, Tobias’s traveling companion was the angel Raphael. After sundry adventures, Tobias married a relative named Sarah and found a remarkable remedy for his father’s blindness. All ends well. The entertaining tale may have been written in the third century B.C. Before the Qumran discoveries, the earliest surviving version of Tobit was in Greek,
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