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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

New Light on the Pharisees

Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls
By Lawrence H. Schiffman
The texts from Qumran lead us to a new understanding of the history of Judaism in the Second Temple period. Initial research on the scrolls naturally concentrated on the Dead Sea Scroll sect. But the full corpus will teach us a tremendous...
Bible Review, June 1992

The Dead Sea Scrolls: How They Changed My Life

By Geza VermesLawrence H. Schiffman
The Quote Heard ’Round the World It was 1948—I was studying theology and the Bible in Louvain (Belgium) at a college run by French-speaking Jesuits—when I first read in the press about a sensational Hebrew manuscript discovery dating to the...
Biblical Archaeology Review, July/August 2007

A Short History of the Dead Sea Scrolls and What They Tell Us

By Lawrence H. Schiffman
I want to say here and now how grateful I am to the original team of Dead Sea Scroll scholars who failed to publish the bulk of the scrolls for nearly 40 years and refused to let other scholars see them in the meantime. But for them, I would...
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2015

The Significance of the Scrolls

The second generation of scholars—or is it the third?—offers a new perspective on the texts from the Qumran caves
By Lawrence H. Schiffman
Dead Sea Scroll scholarship is undergoing a virtual revolution. New ideas and perspectives are percolating among the small group of scholars who dedicate themselves to primary research on the content of the scrolls. Recent publications focus...
Bible Review, October 1990

Insight

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

First Person: Unprovenanced Antiquities: Learning the Hard Way

The Museum of the Bible and those affiliated with the Green Collection were warned—repeatedly—about the problems surrounding the purchase and exhibition of unprovenanced, black-market antiquities.
By Robert R. Cargill
Biblical Archaeology Review, Fall 2020

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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Bible Books: One Bible from Many?

The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English
Martin Abegg, Jr., Peter Flint and Eugene Ulrich
Reviewed by Lawrence H. Schiffman
Bible Review, August 2001

ReViews

A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University’s Genizah Collection
Stefan Reif
Reviewed by Lawrence H. Schiffman
Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2001