The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Hershel Shanks
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good++/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0679457577
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457572
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Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, United States
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Synopsis
Hershel Shanks is founder and editor of Biblical Archaeology Review and Bible Review and editor of Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of essays on the controversy surrounding the interpretation and dissemination of the scrolls. He is the author of Judaism in Stone: The Archaeology of Ancient Synagogues and Jerusalem: An Archaeological Biography. In 1991 he was the first to publish excerpts of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments, which had been secreted by a small coterie of scholars who then controlled them.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn David Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022209
- Title
- The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Author
- Hershel Shanks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679457577
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457572
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
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