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The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Short History
Fields, Weston W.

Leiden: Brill, 2006 pp. 128. $26.00


Description: Who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls? When and where were they discovered? How were they saved? Who has them now? Will more be discovered? Have all the scrolls been published? Are some still hidden away? Were there conspiracies to suppress some scrolls? How do the scrolls affect Christianity and Judaism? How similar are the biblical scrolls to our Bible today? These and other questions are answered in The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Short History, which offers information from exclusive interviews and unpublished archives.

Subjects: Literature, Dead Sea Scrolls


Review by Eric F. Mason
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Published 3/28/2009
Citation: Eric F. Mason, review of Weston W. Fields, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Short History, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2009).


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