THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Written by Geza Vermes
Published by Folio Society
in 2000
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- RELIGION
- CHRISTIANITY
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Front cover
Contents
- Map
- Preface
- A Note on this Translation and Selection
- Introduction
- 1 Dead Sea Scrolls Research from 1947 to the Present Day
- 2 The Essenes and the Qumran Community
- 3 The Wider World: The Essenes in Jewish History, 200BCE-70CE
- Chronology
- THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
- THE RULES
- The Community Rule
- Community Rule Manuscripts from Cave 4
- The Damascus Document
- The Messianic Rule
- The War Scroll
- The Temple Scroll
- Miqsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah
- Purities
- HYMNS AND POEMS
- The Thanksgiving Hymns
- Apocryphal Psalms
- Lamentations
- Songs for the Holocaust of the Sabbath
- HOROSCOPES, LITURGIES, BLESSINGS AND CURSES
- 'Horoscopes' or Astrological Physiognomies
- The Words of the Heavenly Lights
- Blessings and Curses
- APOLCALYPTIC WORKS
- The Triumph of Righteousness or Mysteries
- A Messianic Apocalypse
- WISDOM LITERATURE
- The Seductress
- Exhortation to Seek Wisdom
- On Living a Modest Life
- Bless, my Soul
- Songs of the Sage
- Beatitudes
- BIBLE INTERPRETATION
- Introductory Note
- The Targum of Job
- A Paraphrase of Exodue
- The Genesis Apocryphon
- A Genesis Commentary
- Commentary on Isaiah
- Commentary on Hosea
- Commentary on Hahum
- Commentary Habakkuk
- Commentary Psalms
- Florilegium or Midrash on the Last Days
- The Heavenly Prince Melchizedek
- BIBLICALLY BASED APOCRYPHAL WORKS
- Jubilees
- The Book of Enoch and the Book of Giants
- An Admonition Associated with the Flood
- The Testament of Qahat
- The Words of Moses
- Pseudo-Moses
- Tobit
- THE COPPER SCROLL
- The Copper Scroll: Buried Treasure
- The Sources
- Major Editions of Qumran Manuscripts
- General Bibliography