The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 13
1 The "Biblical" Scrolls and Their Implications......Page 16
Number of Copies from the Qumran Caves......Page 17
Other Copies......Page 19
Texts from Other Judean Desert Sites......Page 20
General Comments......Page 22
Orthography......Page 24
Individual Textual Variants......Page 25
Isolated Interpretive Insertions......Page 26
New and Expanded Editions of Biblical Books......Page 27
Conclusions from the Evidence......Page 30
New Evidence and the Text-Critical Quest......Page 32
2 Commentary on Older Scripture in the Scrolls......Page 40
In the Hebrew Bible......Page 43
Older Literature Outside the Hebrew Bible......Page 45
Scriptural Interpretation in the Scrolls......Page 50
Continuous Pesharim......Page 51
Other Forms of Interpretation......Page 53
Conclusion......Page 62
3 Authoritative Literature According to the Scrolls......Page 64
The Importance of Scripture......Page 67
Was There a Collection of Authoritative Scrolls in the Second Temple Period?......Page 70
Scriptural Practice......Page 75
Statements about Groups of Authoritative Works......Page 76
Statements That Specific Works Were from God and Thus Authoritative......Page 82
Quotations from a Book Introduced with Citation Formulas......Page 84
A Commentary......Page 85
4 New Copies of Old Texts......Page 87
Jubilees......Page 88
Aramaic Levi......Page 92
The Book of Giants......Page 96
The Wisdom of Ben Sira (Sirach)......Page 100
Tobit......Page 104
Enoch......Page 106
Psalms 151, 154, 155......Page 108
5 Groups and Group Controversies in the Scrolls......Page 111
The Three Groups......Page 113
Essenes......Page 114
Sadducees......Page 119
Pharisees......Page 122
6 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament Gospels......Page 133
Messiahs......Page 135
The Works of the Messiah......Page 142
Scriptural Interpretation......Page 145
Legal Matters......Page 148
Rebuking......Page 152
The Scrolls and Acts 1-4......Page 157
Community of Goods......Page 158
Acts 2, Pentecost, and Sinai......Page 162
Conclusions......Page 170
Scriptural Interpretation......Page 171
2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1......Page 174
Works of the Law......Page 178
Bibliography......Page 182
Index......Page 198