The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969Edmund Wilson is one of the few remaining great men of letters in the English-speaking world. At the age of 74 he is still the same voracious reader, original thinker, observant traveller, intrepid polemicist and engaging writer he has always been. The Dead Sea Scrolls is an unsurpassingly lucid introduction to a complex subject. Wilson unravels the exciting tale of how the scrolls came into the possession of students in the war-torn Palestine of the late forties, the excavation of the Dead Sea sect's monastery at Qumrấn, the subsequent debates the scrolls provoked among theologians and scholars, and the light these unprecedented finds have thrown upon biblical studies and the life of Christ. As always Wilson has forced no easy conclusions upon us, but left us pondering connections and lines of enquiry we have not previously considered. / Philip French, Financial Times. |
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The Metropolitan Samuel | 3 |
The Essene Order | 22 |
The Monastery | 42 |
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