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What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? What is Qumran and what relation do the Dead Sea Scrolls have to it? Where are the scrolls today? How do the authors of the scrolls conceive of God? What do these scrolls tell us about first-century Judaism? Does the title Son of Man occur in the Scrolls? Joseph A. Fitzmyer tackles these and many other questions that people ask about the discovery, contents, and...

THE 101 QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES The term “Dead Sea Scrolls” is used today in two senses, one generic and one specific. In the generic sense, “Dead Sea Scrolls” refers to texts, not retrieved from the Dead Sea, but discovered in caves along the northwest shore of that Sea between the years 1947 and 1956. These “scrolls” are sometimes complete, but the vast majority of them are fragmentary texts or documents of various sorts that date roughly from the end of the third
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