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Noted Bible scholar Joseph A. Fitzmyer assesses the impact of the texts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Written for interested readers and students of the Bible, this book emphasizes the importance of the discovery of these texts along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1963.

“Dead Sea Scrolls” is a term used today both in a broad sense and in a narrow sense. In the broad sense, it denotes texts, not discovered in the Dead Sea itself, but in caves and holes along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1963. Although a few of these scrolls are complete, the vast majority of them are fragmentary and some are tiny. They are not all related to one another but come from about a dozen sites
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