CONTENTS |
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PREFACE |
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ABBREVIATIONS |
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1. General |
xiii |
2. Dead Sea Scrolls |
XV |
THE 101 QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES |
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1. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? |
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2. What is Qumran and what relation do the Dead Sea |
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Scrolls have to it? |
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3. How did the scrolls come to be deposited in the caves? |
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4. Who discovered the QS? |
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5. When were the QS discovered? |
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6. In what country were the QS discovered? |
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7. Where are the QS today? |
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8. Who owns the QS? |
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9. How did Israel acquire the seven major scrolls of Cave 1? |
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10. How did various foreign institutions get involved in the |
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Cave 4 publication project? |
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11. Did any Cave 4 fagments fail to end up in the |
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scrollery of the Palestine Archaeological Museum? |
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12. Could the QS lack any connection with the Qumran |
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community? |
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13. What QS have been deữnitively published? |
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14. Are the QS all texts of the OT? |
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15. Of what sort are the nonbiblical writings of Qumran? |
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16. In what languages have the QS been vvritten? |
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17. Are there any NT texts among the QS? |
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18. How are the QS dated? |
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19. What sort of texts were discovered in Cave 1? |
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20. What sort of texts were discovered in Cave 2? |
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21. What sort of texts were discovered in Cave 3? |
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22. What sort of texts were discovered in Cave 3? |
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23. What sort of texts were discovered in Caves 5 and 6 |
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24. What texts were found in Cave 7? |
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25. What texts were discovered in Caves 8, 9, 10? |
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26. What texts were discovered in Cave 11? |
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27. Are any of the QS related to the texts discovered at |
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Masada or Khirbet Mird or in the caves of Murabba‘at, Nahal Hever, Se’elim, and Mishmar? |
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28. What is the Manual of Discipline? |
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29. What is the Damascus Document? |
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30. What is the War Scroll? |
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31. What are the Thanksgiving Psalms? |
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32. What are the pesharim? |
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33. What is the Genesis Apocryphon? |
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34. What is the Copper Plaque? |
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35. What is the Temple Scroll? |
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36. What is the Psalms Scroll of Cave 11? |
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37. What is the Tầrgum of Job. of Cave 11? |
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38. How have the QS aided the study of the text of the OT? |
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39. What do the QS contribute to our understanding of |
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apocalyptic literature? |
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40. What light do the QS shed on ancient forms of the |
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Hebrew or Aramaic languages? |
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41. What light do the QS shed on ancient Judaism? |
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42. Were the members of the Qumran community Torah- |
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observant Jews? |
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43. How do the authors of the QS conceive of God? |
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44. What do the QS tell us about how the people who |
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wrote them understood time and history? |
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45. Did the Qumran community have a messianic |
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expectation? |
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46. Who was the Teacher of Righteousness? |
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47. Did the Qumran community believe that its Teacher of |
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Righteousness was a Messiah? |
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48. Did the community think that the Teacher of |
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Righteousness had been put to death? |
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49. Does any Qumran text mention cruciíìxion? |
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50. Did the Qumran community think that its Teacher of |
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Righteousness was to come back? |
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51. But do not some texts mention the coming of the |
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Interpreter of the Law at the end of days? |
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52. Did entrance into the Qumran comraunity require a |
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period of testing or initiation? |
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53. Were the members of the Qumran communỉty celibate? 65 |
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54. What was distinctive about the theological tenets of |
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the Qumran community? |
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55. What do the QS tell us about the ritual life of the |
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community? |
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56. Do the QS give us any information about the sectarian |
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communal meals? |
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57. Do the QS tell us anything about the dietary habits of |
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the community? |
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58. Do the QS tell us anything about how the community |
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íunctioned and was governed? |
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59. Do the QS tell us anything about how members of the |
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community settled their differences? |
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60. What is known about the Qumran community’s calen- |
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dar and celebration of festivals? |
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61. What do the QS tell us about the community’s ob- |
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servance of the sabbath? |
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62. What was the community’s attitude toward the Temple |
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in Jerusalera? |
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63. What do the QS tell us about the community’s deal- |
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ings with Gentiles? |
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64. What relation do the QS have to the Pharisees or |
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Sadducees mentioned in the NT? |
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65. Who were the Essenes? |
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66. What other ancient writers tell us about the Essenes? |
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67. Is the identiAcation of the Qumran community vvith the Essenes certain? |
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68. How does the Qumran understanding of God differ from that in the NT? |
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69. How do the QS help in the study of the NT? |
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70. Is John the Baptist mentioned in the QS? Could he have been a member of the Essene community at Qumran? |
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71. Is Jesus of Nazareth mentioned in any of the QS? |
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72. Is there mention of anything Christian in the QS? |
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73. Have genuine parallels to NT ideas and phrases been discovered in the QS? |
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74. Do the QS shed any light on christological titles used in the NT? |
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75. Does the title “Son of Man,” which appears so ữequently on the lips of Jesus in the Gospels, occur in the QS? |
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76. Is the “Servant of Yahvveh” theme used in the QS? |
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77. What sort of parallels have been found to the Matthean Gospel? |
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78. What sort of parallels have been found to Johannine vvritings? |
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79. Is not the phrase “sons of light” used elsevvhere in the |
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NT too?. |
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80. What sort of parallels have been found to Pauline letters? |
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81. What light have the QS shed on the Epistle to the Hebrevvs? |
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82. In the NT Jesus íòrbids divorce. Is there anything like that in the QS? |
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83. Did the subsequent history of the Qumran sect con- tribute in any way to Jewish Christianity? |
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84. What relation did the Qumran community have to later Christian monasticism? |
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85. Why have the scrolls from Cave 4 created such a problem as was recently described in news media? |
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86. What stirred up the recent interest in the QS? |
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87. Who assembled the team of scholars to work on Cave 4 ữagments? |
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88. Was any Qumran scroll published by someone who was not part of the international team? |
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89. Why were there no Jewish scholars on the inter- national team? |
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90. Have the Cave 4 texts so far published been com- petently handled? |
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91. How did it come about that there is a concordance of Cave 4 texts, when the texts themselves have not yet been published? |
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92. Who “bootlegged” Cave 4 texts by reconstructing them from the concordance? |
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93. How can a concordance be used to reconstruct a text? |
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94. Can the Cave 4 texts so reconstructed be trusted? |
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95. Have the photographs of all the Cave 4 texts been published? |
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96. Is this a wise or prudent course of action? |
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97. Have there been tendentious readings of the QS? |
157 |
98. Have there been other tendentious readings of the QS? |
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99. Is there any truth to the claim that Allegro made that his colleagues on the team were suppressing texts? |
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100.Has there been a conspiracy to hold up the publica- tion of the scrolls? |
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101.But do the QS contain anything that vvould tend to undermine Christian faith? |
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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INDEXES |
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1. Biblical and DSS |
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2. Topical |
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3. Modern Authors |
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