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The Editors' Preface To the Reader Alphabetical listing of the Books of the Bible Abbreviations The Hebrew Bible --The Pentateuch --The Historical Books --The Poetical and Wisdom Books --The Prophetic Books The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books Introduction --Books and Additions to Esther and Daniel that are in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Slavonic Bibles --Books in the Greek and Slavonic Bibles; not in the Roman Catholic Canon --In the Slavonic Bible and in the Latin Vulgate Appendix --In the Appendix to the Greek Bible The New Testament --The Gospels --The Acts of the Apostles --Letters/Epistles in the New Testament --Revelation General Essays, Tables --The Canons of the Bible --Textual Criticism --Translation of the Bible into English Interpretation --The Hebrew Bible's Interpretation of Itself --The New Testament Interprets the Jewish Scriptures --Jewish Interpretation in the Premodern Era --Christian Interpretation in the Premodern Era --The Interpretation of the Bible: From the Nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Centuries --Contemporary Methods of Biblical study --The Geography of the Bible Cultural Contexts --The Ancient Near East --The Persian and Hellenistic Periods --The Roman Period Tables --Timeline --Chronological Table of Rules --Weights and Measures --Calendar --Parallel Texts Translations of Ancient Texts Glossary Index to the Study Materials Concordance Color Maps… (more)
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Wilson notes that reaction to the translation of the scrolls was not favorable: Jews didn't like the idea that a powerful sect had "grown up inside Judaism but had nothing to do with Judaism." Christians were reluctant to recognize that the characteristic doctrines of Christianity as well as the outlines of [a Savior's] personal history were developed within a dissident branch of Judaism well before Jesus was even born.
Wilson's book was published in 1959. It will be interesting, when I go to the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit later this month, to see how the response to the revelation of the scrolls has evolved over time.
ADDENDUM: Postscript after visiting the exhibit in San Diego:
What a surprise! There were some terrific photographs of Israel, and in particular the Dead Sea region. There were the scroll segments, there were the translations, and there were some pots and shards. What did they mean? Where was the controversy? If one hadn't previously absorbed the message that museums collaborate in the creation (or re-creation) of history and memory, the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit brings it on home. A feast for postmodernist deconstructionists.
(JAF)