What's all the fuss about? -- The greatest archaeological find of the twentieth century: a 2,000-year-old time capsule -- The ancient book club -- Show me the money: buried treasure and other mysteries -- The Dead Sea is deathly hot...why there? -- The end of the world and the battle between good and evil -- Translating translations and copying copies -- What if the BIble is just another fragment? A primer on textual criticism -- Do we have the wrong Hebrew Bible? A primer on source criticism -- Surreal theologians: belief and practice at Qumrân -- The dead Sea scrolls, the New Testament, and early Christianity -- The beginning of the end -- What's next? -- A Dead Sea scrolls glossary -- David Noel Freedman's select bibliography on the Dead Sea scrolls.
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