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The biblical manuscripts found at Qumran, contends Sidnie White Crawford, reflect a spectrum of text movement from authoritative scriptural traditions to completely new compositions. Treating six major groups of texts, she shows how differences in the texts result from a particular understanding of the work of the scribe—not merely to copy but also to interpret, update, and make relevant the...

of the Dead Sea. These scrolls, almost entirely religious in nature, form a coherent collection that belonged to a particular group within Judaism in the late Second Temple period, a group that differentiated itself from other Jews in matters of practice and doctrine. This group was in all probability the Essenes or a subset of them.26 The manuscripts from Qumran date, according to paleographic criteria, from ca. 250 B.C.E. to ca. 68 C.E. Thus they give us a good snapshot of what religious texts
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