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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...

c. Letter of Jeremiah (= Baruch 6) This single-chapter work is largely an attack on idolatry. Nothing from the first five chapters of Baruch has been found at Qumran, but the Letter of Jeremiah appears on one copy from Cave 7 (7Q2) that is written in Greek, which was apparently the original language of the book. Cave 7 is, incidentally, one of the few places where Greek manuscript fragments were found at Qumran. In fact, all legible fragments from Cave 7 have Greek texts. d. Psalm 151 This extra
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