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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.

text; from 10Q: one text; from 11Q: 31 texts; from an unidentified cave: seven texts. Caves 1, 4, and 11 have yielded the most important writings. The rest of the discussion in this book will concentrate on the scrolls in the narrow sense, that is, the Qumran Scrolls and fragments, the so-called Qumran literature (QL). So much for the terminology of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although we probably shall never learn the full story of the discovery of the Qumran Scrolls, certain details about it
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