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The Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls is unavailable, but you can change that!

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.

conceal ancient written documents that will make the impact on the study of Palestinian Judaism and its biblical books that these eleven Qumran caves have made! These Qumran Scrolls have supplied texts that fall into three groups: (1) biblical texts (copies of every book of the OT, except Esther); (2) sectarian texts (rulebooks, liturgical, and poetic writings); and (3) parabiblical Jewish documents, often misnamed “intertestamental” (Enoch, Jubilees, etc.). This discovery of scrolls and fragments
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