TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fitzmyer,Joseph A.
TI  - The impact of the Dead Sea scrolls 
SN  - 9780809146154 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BM487 FIT .F546 2009
U1  - 296.1/55 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Paulist Press
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - Relation to the New Testament
KW  - Qumran community
N1  - Includes index; The Dead Sea scrolls: terminology, discovery, and dating -- The Dead Sea scrolls: archaeology, the excavation of Khirbet Qumran -- The Palestinian Jewish sect of the Essenes: history and organization -- The languages of the scrolls -- The Scriptures in the scrolls: Old Testament, Targums, Canon -- The use and interpretation of Scripture in the sect -- Apocryphal, sapiential, liturgical, and eschatological literature -- Beliefs and practices of the sect: dualism, eschatology, messianism, calendar -- The scrolls and Christianity: John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament -- The scrolls and the writings of Paul of Tarsus -- The scrolls and Johannine writings -- The scrolls and other Christian writings -- The copper scroll -- The end of the Qumran community
ER  -