Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search for the Secret of QumranChallenges existing theories of the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls and offers the author's theory with wide-ranging implications. This book suggests that the scrolls are a collection brought by Palestinian Jews fleeing the Roman seige of Jerusalem. |
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The Qumran Plateau | 3 |
The Manuscripts of the Jews | 43 |
A Paradigm Reconsidered | 95 |
Copyright | |
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