The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible

by Eugene Ulrich

The Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran provide the oldest, best, and most direct witness we have to the origins of the Hebrew Bible. Prior to the discovery of the Scrolls, scholars had textual evidence for only a single, late period in the history of the biblical text, leading them to believe that the text was uniform. The Scrolls, however, provide documentary evidence a thousand years older than all previously known Hebrew manuscripts and reveal a period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802846114
• ISBN13: 9780802846112
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"