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Dead Sea Scrolls: The Untold Story

Author: Hanson, Kenneth

Midwest Book Review
Dead Sea Scrolls: The Untold Story is the exciting story of the Dead Sea Scrolls, of where they came from and what they meant to those who wrote them. What might they reveal for today's world? Why were they hidden in desert caves for two thousand years, coming to light again at the moment in history when the long diaspora of the Jews ended and the modern State of Israel was born? Israel in the years 200 BC to AD 70 was a place of prophets, Pharisees, Essenes, Herods, high priests. It was also a time of turmoil. , beginning with devastating persecution of Jews at the hands of the Syrians and culminating in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. Here is also the story of a mysterious "Teacher of Righteousness" and his followers, their deadly confrontation with a powerful "Wicked Priest", and how the beliefs and practices of a fundamentalist Jewish sect laid the groundwork for the subsequent development of Christianity.

From The Publisher
Hebrew scholar Dr. Kenneth Hanson tells the of enthralling story the Dead Sea Scrolls for the first time. Hanson describes the astounding discovery itself, the half-century of intrigue that followed and the mysterious sect which wrote, preserved and died defending these treasured works, which for them and countless others contained the word of God.

Reviews
From Library Journal 
Since 1991, when the Huntington Library opened its collection of photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls to scholars and the Biblical Archaeology Society published a two-volume set of the unpublished scrolls, dozens of books on the scrolls and Qumran have appeared, including two new translations of the nonbiblical texts. Hanson (Judaic studies, Univ. of Central Florida) skillfully tells the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the people who wrote and hid them (whom he identifies with the Essenes). He chronicles the sect as they make their way into the desert, struggle for survival, and are finally destroyed after fleeing to Masada. Throughout, he draws attention to correlations between the scrolls and the New Testament. While there is nothing particularly new here (despite the subtitle) and no issues are clearly resolved, Hanson's work is fairly well written and free of polemics. Recommended for those libraries that need a nonacademic introduction to Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls.Craig W. Beard, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham Lib.
 
From Publishers Weekly 
Since they were discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have generated a number of studies, some balanced and some sensational, exploring their usefulness to an understanding of the history of Judaism and Christianity. Here, Hanson tells the story of the scrolls from their discovery to the present. He makes connections between the Essenes, the group that many scholars believe produced the scrolls, and Jesus of Nazareth, wondering if "the Gospel accounts were perhaps written to show how Jesus' life conformed to the Essenes' prophecies regard


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