Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Viking Adult (1955), 435 pages
Description
Tells the story of the discovery of the scrolls, explains their significance, and provides translations of the most interesting scroll Early in 1947, a fifteen-year-old Bedouin boy discovered a cave at the edge of the Dead Sea. In it were broken jars containing scrolls of leather wrapped in linen cloth, inscribed in a strange writing. Soon recognized as "the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times," the chance finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls touched off furious controversy among Bible scholars and fascinated the public. In this book, the author tells the entire story -- of the discoveries, of the attempts to date the manuscripts, of their content and their significanc
Subjects
LCC
BM487.B78
Awards
Notable Books List (1955)
Physical description
435 p.; 20 inches
ISBN
0670260703 / 9780670260706
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