More than fifty years ago the discovery of scrolls in eleven caves
beside the Dead Sea ignited the imagination of the world--and
launched a vast academic field. Expectations abounded that the
scrolls would reveal actual contemporaneous accounts of the birth
of Christianity, perhaps even of the life of Jesus. The research
that followed--its inner logic, and what its impassioned and often
highly controversial theories reveal about the framing of facts and
the interpreting of texts--is what interests philosopher Edna
Ullmann-Margalit in this thoroughly absorbing book.
Since the inception of Dead Sea Scrolls research, a central
theory has emerged. Known as the Qumran-Essene Hypothesis, it
asserts that the scrolls belonged to the Essenes, a sect whose
center was at the nearby site of Qumran. In "Out of the Cave,"
Ullmann-Margalit focuses on this theory and the vicissitudes of its
career. Looking at the Essene connection, the archaeology of
Qumran, and the sectarian nature of the scrolls community, she
explores the different arenas, and ways, in which contesting
theories of the scrolls do battle. In this context she finds
fascinating examples of issues that exercise philosophers of
science as well as the general public--issues that only amplify the
already intrinsic interest of the Dead Sea scrolls.
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