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    <title>Dead Sea scrolls today</title>
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    <namePart>VanderKam, James C.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Grand Rapids, Mich</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2010</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xvi, 260 p. : ill., maps, photographs ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Summary:</abstract>
  <abstract>Summarizes the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their discovery, nature chronology, literary character, and background.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Contents:</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>1. Discoveries --
2. Survey of the manuscripts --
3. Identification of the Qumran group --
4. Qumran Essenes --
5. The Scrolls and the Old Testament --
6. The Scrolls and the New Testament --
7. Controversies about the Dead Sea Scrolls.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">James C. VanderKam.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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      <title>Dead Sea scrolls</title>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Bible<partName>O.T</partName></title>
    </titleInfo>
    <topic>Criticism, Textual</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Dead Sea scrolls</title>
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    <topic>Relation to the New Testament</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Bible<partName>N.T</partName></title>
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    <topic>Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Qumran community</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Essenes</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BM 487 .V26 2010</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">296.1/55</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780802864352 (pbk. : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2009048973</identifier>
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