The Essenes and Qumran
Date Submitted: 08/18/2004 18:54:33
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 18 pages (5057 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 18 pages (5057 words)
In 1947 an Arab shepherd boy was throwing stones at the opening of a cave above
him near the shore of the Dead Sea. He heard a jar break and climbed up the cliff to investigate. What he discovered has revolutionized the study of the Bible. There, in that cave, stuffed in jars, were scores of papyrus scrolls covering almost every book of the Old Testament.
While other scrolls have been discovered since, in caves all …
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…the Scrolls. Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1957. 186.
18. Josephus, Flavius, The Jewish War. Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1959. 129.
19. DupontSummer, A., The Essene Writings From Qumran. World Publishing Co., New York, 1962. 36.
20. Ibid., 36.
21. Ibid., 43.
22. Ibid., 21.
23. Ibid., 21, Footnote 3.
24. Ibid., 21-24.
25. Ibid., 2426.
26. Josephus, Flavius, The Jewish War. Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1959.
27. DupontSummer, A., The Essene Writings From Qumran. World Publishing Co., New York, 1962. 36.
28. Ibid., 37.
29. Ibid., 3435.
30. Ibid., 22.
31. Josephus, Flavius, The Jewish War. Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1959. 128.
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