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by Norman Golb

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From one of the leading authorities on the Dead Sea Scrolls comes a startling new theory on their origins, history, and meaning. Norman Golb's intriguing explanation of the Scroll's origins conveys fascinating new information on the evolution of Judaism and Christianity. "The best and most complete account we have to date".--The Washington Post.

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Since their discovery in the Qumran caves beginning in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the object of intense fascination and extreme controversy. Here Professor Norman Golb intensifies the debate over the scrolls' origins, arguing that they were not the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as other scholars have claimed, but written by different groups of Jews and the smuggled out of Jerusalem's libraries before the Roman seige of A.D 70.

Golb also unravels the mystery behind the scholarly monopoly that controlled the scrolls for many years, and discusses his role as a key player in the successful struggle to make the scrolls widely available to both scholars and students. And he pleads passionately for an academic politics and a renewed commitment to the search for the truth in scroll scholarship.

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Spread out below the escarpment where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, Khirbet Qumran dominates the sea's northwestern shore.

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  • Title Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search for the Secret of Qumran
  • Author Norman Golb
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, New York
  • Publication date 1996-06-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780684806921 / 0684806924
  • Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Category Religion - Commentaries / Reference
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94023295
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.155

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Norman Golb was the Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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