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The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near
the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite
the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the
Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time
of the fiftieth anniversary of the first discovery. That occasion
was marked by a spate of major publications that attempted to sum
up the state of scholarship at the end of the twentieth century,
including The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (OUP 2000).
These publications produced an authoritative synthesis to which the
majority of scholars in the field subscribed, granted disagreements
in detail.
A decade or so later, The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls
has a different objective and character. It seeks to probe the main
disputed issues in the study of the Scrolls. Lively debate
continues over the archaeology and history of the site, the nature
and identity of the sect, and its relation to the broader world of
Second Temple Judaism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition.
It is the Handbook's intention here to reflect on diverse opinions
and viewpoints, highlight the points of disagreement, and point to
promising directions for future research.
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