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That’s No Gospel, It’s Enoch!

Identification of Dead Sea Scrolls challenged
By Peter W. Flint
In 1972 the Spanish scholar José O’Callaghan startled the world of biblical scholarship when he announced that he had identified nine New Testament fragments among the Dead Sea Scrolls.1 In the 30 years since, O’Callaghan’s findings have...
Bible Review, April 2003

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By Frank Moore CrossEmanuel TovSidnie White CrawfordMartin Abegg, Jr.
In this issue four prominent scholars tell BAR readers how the scrolls changed their lives. Harvard’s Frank Cross is the doyen of Dead Sea Scroll scholars; his views come in an interview with BAR editor Hershel Shanks. In the pages that...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2007

Hershel’s Crusade, No. 1: He Who Freed the Dead Sea Scrolls

By Martin Abegg, Jr.
In 1991, with the support of Hershel Shanks and BAS, Martin Abegg, Jr., contemplated committing “academic suicide”—publishing reconstructions of the Dead Sea Scrolls without the permission of the sluggish and secretive publication team. Abegg details how, in fact, Hershel’s impact resonates far beyond that remarkable moment.
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April May/June 2018

“Will Marty Abegg Ever Find a Job?”

Scroll Scholar Thrives Despite Unauthorized Publication
By Martin Abegg, Jr.Michael PhelpsHershel Shanks
The monopoly over access to the Dead Sea Scrolls was broken in 1991. One of the key events in that breakup was the publication of Dead Sea Scroll texts that had been reconstructed by computer from a concordance. We will here detail this...
Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2003

Insight

Why Is Esther Missing from Qumran?
By Martin Abegg, Jr.Eugene UlrichPeter W. Flint
Bible Review, August 1999

Paul, “Works of the Law” and MMT

By Martin Abegg, Jr.
The usual translation of Miqsat Ma‘ase Ha-Torah—MMT—obscures its relationship to Paul’s letters. This Dead Sea Scroll and Paul use the very same phrase. On March 15, 1988, as part of my duties as the new graduate research assistant to...
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December 1994

First Person: Who Owns History?

By Robert R. Cargill
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2019

First Person: The Importance of Archaeological Provenance

By Robert R. Cargill
Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2018

First Person: Festschrift: A Celebration of Hershel Shanks

By Robert R. Cargill
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April May/June 2018

Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Professor Flint takes you on a journey from Jerusalem to the wilderness of Judea—and into the caves of Qumran, where many of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds. He recounts the story of their discovery, reviews various Scroll manuscripts and shares an interesting analysis comparing the Old Testament books favored by the Jewish Essenes versus the early Christians. Flint focuses on The Book of Isaiah, one of the three most popular Biblical books appreciated by these similar, yet very different groups. Quoting the well-known verse Isaiah 40:3: “A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God,” Flint explains how all four gospel writers included parts of this verse in their texts.

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