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The People of The Dead Sea Scrolls

Essenes or Sadducees?
By James C. VanderKam
042 Adjacent to the 11 caves on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were found are the remains of an ancient settlement overlooking the Wadi Qumran. It is almost certain that the people who lived in this...
Bible Review, April 1991

A New Dead Sea Scroll in Stone?

Bible-like Prophecy Was Mounted in a Wall 2,000 Years Ago
By Ada Yardeni
060 IF it were written on leather (and smaller) I would say it was another Dead Sea Scroll fragment—but it isn’t. It is written on gray-colored stone! And it is 3 feet high and 1 foot wide! Otherwise, it strongly resembles in many respects what...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2008

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament

By James C. VanderKam
043 What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the New Testament? One possible answer is: Nothing. The scrolls were associated with a relatively small group, or, rather, with several small groups.a Other Jewish people, like the first Christians,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 2015

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By James H. CharlesworthJames C. VanderKam
060 35 Scrolls Still in Private Hands By James H. Charlesworth In 1954, at the age of 14, I was living with my family in Delray Beach, Florida. I would spend summers exploring the Everglades in my kayak, wondering wide-eyed at the alligators and...
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2007

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity: Part One

How are they related?
By James C. VanderKam
014 Almost from the moment the first Dead Sea Scrolls came under scholarly scrutiny, the question of their relation to early Christianity became a key issue. The early days of Qumrana research produced some spectacular theories regarding the...
Bible Review, December 1991

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity: Part Two

What they share
By James C. VanderKam
016 Many of the ritual and community practices of the Qumran covenanters, who lived near the Dead Sea and who produced what we call the Dead Sea Scrolls, have impressive parallels among New Testament Christians. Here are just a few: Acts...
Bible Review, February 1992

Reinterpreting John

How the Dead Sea Scrolls have revolutionized our understanding of the Gospel of John
By James H. Charlesworth
019 Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, many scholars considered the Fourth Gospel—the Gospel According to John—to be a mid-to-late-second-century composition inspired by Greek philosophy. Today, 45 years later, a growing scholarly...
Bible Review, February 1993

Breaking the Missing Link

Cross and Eshel misread the Qumran ostracon relating the settlement to the Dead Sea Scrolls
By Ada Yardeni
044 With all due respect to my distinguished colleagues Frank Moore Cross of Harvard University and Esther Eshel of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, their reading of the recently excavated and already famous ostracon from Qumran is, in a word,...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 1998

Who Was He? Rare DSS Text Mentions King Jonathan

By Esther EshelHanan EshelAda Yardeni
075 The fragmentary Dead Sea Scroll that is the subject of this article has been much discussed by scholars since our recent publication of it in a scientific journal,1 and it has even received some notice in the popular press, principally...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 1994

They Would Change the Dates of Clearly Stratified Inscriptions—Impossible!

By Ada Yardeni
047 Any script used over a long period of time undergoes changes, some of which may not be perceived by one unfamiliar with the development of the letter forms. In order to date a script, one has to be familiar with its style—all the details...
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1997

Jubilees

How it rewrote the Bible
By James C. VanderKam
033 The book of Jubilees belongs to a category of literature that contemporary scholars designate by the pleasantly vague tag “the Rewritten Bible.”1 The author of the book, like a number of other ancient Jewish writers, found it convenient to...
Bible Review, December 1992

Hershel’s Crusade, No. 3: Forgeries and Unprovenanced Artifacts

By Ada Yardeni
Scholars have debated what to do with forgeries and unprovenanced artifacts. Many believe they should not be published or considered reliable historical evidence. However, some, Hershel Shanks included, believe they should be treated as valuable pieces of the archaeological puzzle. Paleographer Ada Yardeni highlights a few significant cases.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April May/June 2018

Enoch’s Vision of the Next World

By James C. VanderKam
032 What is the appeal of that curious collection of tales known as the Book of Enoch? It is (and was) that it provides a glimpse into the beyond. As George Nickelsburg suggests in his new commentary, Enoch reassures the faithful that there was...
Bible Review, April 2003

Hershel Shanks Interviews Scholars on the Scrolls

Three video interviews with prominent Dead Sea Scrolls scholars
Weston W. FieldsGeorge J. BrookeJames H. CharlesworthSidnie White CrawfordJoseph A. Fitzmyer

Professors James H. Charlesworth and Sidnie White Crawford

In this lively interview, BAR editor Hershel Shanks engages James Charlesworth and Sidnie White Crawford in a conversation about John Strugnell, a linguistics genius and editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project who was ousted as the project’s head in 1990 (as well as from his post at Harvard University) following alleged anti-Semitic remarks. Charlesworth and Crawford share personal accounts of their work with Strugnell and the Dead Sea Scrolls. This in-depth discussion also explores the role of the scrolls in relation to the study of early Christianity.

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ReViews: Dead Sea Scrolls at a Glance

What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter?
David Noel Freedman and Pam Fox Kuhlken
Reviewed by James C. VanderKam
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2008

Book Notes

Reviewed by Elizabeth JohnsonJames C. VanderKam
Bible Review, August 1992

Book Notes

Reviewed by John W. CoakleyJames C. VanderKam
Bible Review, April 1993

ReViews

Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction
George W.E. Nickelsburg
Reviewed by James C. VanderKam
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2006

Book Notes

Reviewed by Elizabeth JohnsonJames C. VanderKam
Bible Review, October 1993

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