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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...

Thanksgiving Hymns express the notion that the psalmist is raised to an everlasting height where he enjoys communion with the angels (see, for example, 3.19–29; 6.13). 2) Other Poems Besides the copies of the Thanksgiving Hymns, the caves contained many other poetic compositions that praise and thank God, as well as some descriptions and quotations of prayers and blessings offered daily or on special occasions (such as the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice). There are two copies of a work called “Psalms
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