The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction (Second Edition)

169 Pages·2017·12.155 MB·English

by  Timothy Lim

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The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/12/16, SPi
VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating
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ACCOUNTING Christopher Nobes AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY
ADOLESCENCE Peter K. Smith Susan Ware
ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ANAESTHESIA Aidan O’Donnell
AFRICAN AMERICAN ANARCHISM Colin Ward
RELIGION Eddie S. Glaude Jr ANCIENT ASSYRIA Karen Radner
AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw
Richard Rathbone ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART AND
AFRICAN RELIGIONS ARCHITECTURE Christina Riggs
Jacob K. Olupona ANCIENT GREECE Paul Cartledge
AGEING Nancy A. Pachana THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin Amanda H. Podany
AGRICULTURE Paul Brassley and ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas
Richard Soffe ANCIENT WARFARE
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Harry Sidebottom
Hugh Bowden ANGELS David Albert Jones
ALGEBRA Peter M. Higgins ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman
AMERICAN HISTORY Paul S. Boyer THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
David A. Gerber Tristram D. Wyatt
AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
G. Edward White Peter Holland
AMERICAN POLITICAL ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia
HISTORY Donald Critchlow THE ANTARCTIC Klaus Dodds
AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller
AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel ANXIETY Daniel Freeman and
AMERICAN POLITICS Jason Freeman
Richard M. Valelly THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY Paul Foster
Charles O. Jones ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne
Robert J. Allison ARISTOCRACY William Doyle
AMERICAN SLAVERY ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
Heather Andrea Williams ART HISTORY Dana Arnold
THE AMERICAN WEST Stephen Aron ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
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ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe
Madeline Y. Hsu CHAOS Leonard Smith
ASTROBIOLOGY David C. Catling CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins
ASTROPHYSICS James Binney CHILD PSYCHOLOGY Usha Goswami
ATHEISM Julian Baggini CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick Kimberley Reynolds
AUSTRALIA Kenneth Morgan CHINESE LITERATURE Sabina Knight
AUTISM Uta Frith CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham
THE AVANT GARDE David Cottington CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson
THE AZTECS Davíd Carrasco CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long
BABYLONIA Trevor Bryce CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead
BACTERIA Sebastian G. B. Amyes CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy
BANKING John Goddard and CIVIL ENGINEERING David Muir Wood
John O. S. Wilson CLASSICAL LITERATURE William Allan
BARTHES Jonathan Culler CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
THE BEATS David Sterritt Helen Morales
BEAUTY Roger Scruton CLASSICS Mary Beard and
BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS John Henderson
Michelle Baddeley CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard
BESTSELLERS John Sutherland CLIMATE Mark Maslin
THE BIBLE John Riches CLIMATE CHANGE Mark Maslin
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Eric H. Cline Richard Passingham
BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon
BLACK HOLES Katherine Blundell COLONIAL AMERICA Alan Taylor
BLOOD Chris Cooper COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN
THE BLUES Elijah Wald LITERATURE Rolena Adorno
THE BODY Chris Shilling COMBINATORICS Robin Wilson
THE BOOK OF MORMON COMEDY Matthew Bevis
Terryl Givens COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes
BORDERS Alexander C. Diener and COMPLEXITY John H. Holland
Joshua Hagen THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince
THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea COMPUTER SCIENCE
THE BRICS Andrew F. Cooper Subrata Dasgupta
THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION CONFUCIANISM Daniel K. Gardner
Martin Loughlin THE CONQUISTADORS
THE BRITISH EMPIRE Ashley Jackson Matthew Restall and
BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright Felipe Fernández-Armesto
BUDDHA Michael Carrithers CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm
BUDDHISM Damien Keown CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore
BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown CONTEMPORARY ART
BYZANTIUM Peter Sarris Julian Stallabrass
CALVINISM Jon Balserak CONTEMPORARY FICTION
CANCER Nicholas James Robert Eaglestone
CAPITALISM James Fulcher CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins Simon Critchley
CAUSATION Stephen Mumford and COPERNICUS Owen Gingerich
Rani Lill Anjum CORAL REEFS Charles Sheppard
THE CELL Terence Allen and CORPORATE SOCIAL
Graham Cowling RESPONSIBILITY Jeremy Moon
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CORRUPTION Leslie Holmes ENGELS Terrell Carver
COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ENGINEERING David Blockley
CRIME FICTION Richard Bradford ENGLISH LITERATURE Jonathan Bate
CRIMINAL JUSTICE Julian V. Roberts THE ENLIGHTENMENT
CRITICAL THEORY John Robertson
Stephen Eric Bronner ENTREPRENEURSHIP Paul Westhead
THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman and Mike Wright
CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
Sean Murphy Stephen Smith
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY A. M. Glazer ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Andrew Dobson
Richard Curt Kraus EPICUREANISM Catherine Wilson
DADA AND SURREALISM EPIDEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci
David Hopkins ETHICS Simon Blackburn
DANTE Peter Hainsworth and ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Timothy Rice
David Robey THE ETRUSCANS Christopher Smith
DARWIN Jonathan Howard EUGENICS Philippa Levine
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder
Timothy H. Lim and Simon Usherwood
DECOLONIZATION Dane Kennedy EVOLUTION Brian and
DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick Deborah Charlesworth
DEPRESSION Jan Scott and EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn
Mary Jane Tacchi EXPLORATION Stewart A. Weaver
DERRIDA Simon Glendinning THE EYE Michael Land
DESCARTES Tom Sorell FAMILY LAW Jonathan Herring
DESERTS Nick Middleton FASCISM Kevin Passmore
DESIGN John Heskett FASHION Rebecca Arnold
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY FEMINISM Margaret Walters
Lewis Wolpert FILM Michael Wood
THE DEVIL Darren Oldridge FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak
DIASPORA Kevin Kenny THE FIRST WORLD WAR
DICTIONARIES Lynda Mugglestone Michael Howard
DINOSAURS David Norman FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin
DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa FOOD John Krebs
DOCUMENTARY FILM FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
Patricia Aufderheide David Canter
DREAMING J. Allan Hobson FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser
DRUGS Les Iversen FORESTS Jaboury Ghazoul
DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe FOSSILS Keith Thomson
EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly FOUCAULT Gary Gutting
THE EARTH Martin Redfern THE FOUNDING FATHERS
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE Tim Lenton R. B. Bernstein
ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta FRACTALS Kenneth Falconer
EDUCATION Gary Thomas FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton
EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch FREE WILL Thomas Pink
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons
Paul Langford THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball William Doyle
EMOTION Dylan Evans FREUD Anthony Storr
EMPIRE Stephen Howe FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven
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FUNGI Nicholas P. Money HIV AND AIDS Alan Whiteside
GALAXIES John Gribbin HOBBES Richard Tuck
GALILEO Stillman Drake HOLLYWOOD Peter Decherney
GAME THEORY Ken Binmore HOME Michael Allen Fox
GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh HORMONES Martin Luck
GENES Jonathan Slack HUMAN ANATOMY
GENIUS Andrew Robinson Leslie Klenerman
GEOGRAPHY John Matthews and HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood
David Herbert HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham
GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds HUMANISM Stephen Law
GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle HUME A. J. Ayer
GERMAN PHILOSOPHY HUMOUR Noël Carroll
Andrew Bowie THE ICE AGE Jamie Woodward
GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden
GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY INDIAN CINEMA
Robert C. Allen Ashish Rajadhyaksha
GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton
GOD John Bowker THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
GOETHE Ritchie Robertson Robert C. Allen
THE GOTHIC Nick Groom INFECTIOUS DISEASE Marta L. Wayne
GOVERNANCE Mark Bevir and Benjamin M. Bolker
GRAVITY Timothy Clifton INFORMATION Luciano Floridi
THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE INNOVATION Mark Dodgson and
NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway David Gann
HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary
THE HABSBURG EMPIRE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Martyn Rady Siva Vaidhyanathan
HAPPINESS Daniel M. Haybron INTERNATIONAL LAW
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Vaughan Lowe
Cheryl A. Wall INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
THE HEBREW BIBLE AS LITERATURE Khalid Koser
Tod Linafelt INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
HEGEL Peter Singer Paul Wilkinson
HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
HERMENEUTICS Jens Zimmermann Christopher S. Browning
HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts IRAN Ali M. Ansari
HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson ISLAM Malise Ruthven
HINDUISM Kim Knott ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein
HISTORY John H. Arnold ISOTOPES Rob Ellam
THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY ITALIAN LITERATURE
Michael Hoskin Peter Hainsworth and David Robey
THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY JESUS Richard Bauckham
William H. Brock JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves
THE HISTORY OF LIFE Michael Benton JUDAISM Norman Solomon
THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS JUNG Anthony Stevens
Jacqueline Stedall KABBALAH Joseph Dan
THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE KAFKA Ritchie Robertson
William Bynum KANT Roger Scruton
THE HISTORY OF TIME KEYNES Robert Skidelsky
Leofranc Holford-Strevens KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner
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KNOWLEDGE Jennifer Nagel METAPHYSICS Stephen Mumford
THE KORAN Michael Cook THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Alan Knight
Ian H. Thompson MICHAEL FARADAY
LANDSCAPES AND Frank A. J. L. James
GEOMORPHOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY Nicholas P. Money
Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles MICROECONOMICS Avinash Dixit
LANGUAGES Stephen R. Anderson MICROSCOPY Terence Allen
LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark THE MIDDLE AGES Miri Rubin
LAW Raymond Wacks MILITARY JUSTICE Eugene R. Fidell
THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS MINERALS David Vaughan
Peter Atkins MODERN ART David Cottington
LEADERSHIP Keith Grint MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter
LEARNING Mark Haselgrove MODERN DRAMA
LEIBNIZ Maria Rosa Antognazza Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
LIBERALISM Michael Freeden MODERN FRANCE
LIGHT Ian Walmsley Vanessa R. Schwartz
LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta
LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews MODERN ITALY Anna Cento Bull
LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler MODERN JAPAN
LOCKE John Dunn Christopher Goto-Jones
LOGIC Graham Priest MODERN LATIN AMERICAN
LOVE Ronald de Sousa LITERATURE
MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner Roberto González Echevarría
MADNESS Andrew Scull MODERN WAR Richard English
MAGIC Owen Davies MODERNISM Christopher Butler
MAGNA CARTA Nicholas Vincent MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Aysha Divan
MAGNETISM Stephen Blundell and Janice A. Royds
MALTHUS Donald Winch MOLECULES Philip Ball
MANAGEMENT John Hendry THE MONGOLS Morris Rossabi
MAO Delia Davin MOONS David A. Rothery
MARINE BIOLOGY Philip V. Mladenov MORMONISM Richard Lyman Bushman
THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips MOUNTAINS Martin F. Price
MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. C. Brown
MARTYRDOM Jolyon Mitchell MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi
MARX Peter Singer MUSIC Nicholas Cook
MATERIALS Christopher Hall MYTH Robert A. Segal
MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
THE MEANING OF LIFE Mike Rapport
Terry Eagleton NATIONALISM Steven Grosby
MEASUREMENT David Hand NAVIGATION Jim Bennett
MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer
MEDICAL LAW Charles Foster NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger and
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham Ravi Roy
and Ralph A. Griffiths NETWORKS Guido Caldarelli and
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Michele Catanzaro
Elaine Treharne THE NEW TESTAMENT
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Luke Timothy Johnson
John Marenbon THE NEW TESTAMENT AS
MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster LITERATURE Kyle Keefer
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NEWTON Robert Iliffe POPULISM Cas Mudde and
NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
NINETEENTH-CENTURY POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young
BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler
H. C. G. Matthew POSTSTRUCTURALISM
THE NORMAN CONQUEST Catherine Belsey
George Garnett PREHISTORY Chris Gosden
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY
Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green Catherine Osborne
NORTHERN IRELAND PRIVACY Raymond Wacks
Marc Mulholland PROBABILITY John Haigh
NOTHING Frank Close PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent
NUCLEAR PHYSICS Frank Close PROTESTANTISM Mark A. Noll
NUCLEAR POWER Maxwell Irvine PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns
NUCLEAR WEAPONS PSYCHOANALYSIS Daniel Pick
Joseph M. Siracusa PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and
NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins Freda McManus
NUTRITION David A. Bender PSYCHOTHERAPY Tom Burns and
OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger Eva Burns-Lundgren
THE OLD TESTAMENT PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Michael D. Coogan Stella Z. Theodoulou and Ravi K. Roy
THE ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman PUBLIC HEALTH Virginia Berridge
ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer
PANDEMICS Christian W. McMillen THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion
PAGANISM Owen Davies QUANTUM THEORY
THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI John Polkinghorne
CONFLICT Martin Bunton RACISM Ali Rattansi
PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close RADIOACTIVITY Claudio Tuniz
PAUL E. P. Sanders RASTAFARI Ennis B. Edmonds
PEACE Oliver P. Richmond THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy
PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay REALITY Jan Westerhoff
THE PERIODIC TABLE Eric R. Scerri THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall
PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig RELATIVITY Russell Stannard
PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC RELIGION IN AMERICA Timothy Beal
WORLD Peter Adamson THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW RENAISSANCE ART
Raymond Wacks Geraldine A. Johnson
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE REVOLUTIONS Jack A. Goldstone
Samir Okasha RHETORIC Richard Toye
PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards RISK Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins RITUAL Barry Stephenson
PILGRIMAGE Ian Reader RIVERS Nick Middleton
PLAGUE Paul Slack ROBOTICS Alan Winfield
PLANETS David A. Rothery ROCKS Jan Zalasiewicz
PLANTS Timothy Walker ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway
PLATE TECTONICS Peter Molnar THE ROMAN EMPIRE
PLATO Julia Annas Christopher Kelly
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
David Miller David M. Gwynn
POLITICS Kenneth Minogue ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber
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ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler STUART BRITAIN John Morrill
RUSSELL A. C. Grayling SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
RUSSIAN HISTORY Geoffrey Hosking Stephen Blundell
RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly SYMMETRY Ian Stewart
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TAXATION Stephen Smith
S. A. Smith TEETH Peter S. Ungar
SAVANNAS Peter A. Furley TELESCOPES Geoff Cottrell
SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith and TERRORISM Charles Townshend
Eve Johnstone THEATRE Marvin Carlson
SCHOPENHAUER THEOLOGY David F. Ford
Christopher Janaway THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr
SCIENCE AND RELIGION THOUGHT Tim Bayne
Thomas Dixon TIBETAN BUDDHISM
SCIENCE FICTION David Seed Matthew T. Kapstein
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfield
Lawrence M. Principe TRAGEDY Adrian Poole
SCOTLAND Rab Houston TRANSLATION Matthew Reynolds
SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier THE TROJAN WAR Eric H. Cline
SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES TRUST Katherine Hawley
Bart van Es THE TUDORS John Guy
SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN
THE SILK ROAD James A. Millward Kenneth O. Morgan
SLANG Jonathon Green THE UNITED NATIONS
SLEEP Steven W. Lockley and Jussi M. Hanhimäki
Russell G. Foster THE U.S. CONGRESS Donald A. Ritchie
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
ANTHROPOLOGY Linda Greenhouse
John Monaghan and Peter Just UTOPIANISM Lyman Tower Sargent
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Richard J. Crisp THE VIKINGS Julian Richards
SOCIAL WORK Sally Holland and VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford
Jonathan Scourfield VOLTAIRE Nicholas Cronk
SOCIALISM Michael Newman WAR AND TECHNOLOGY
SOCIOLINGUISTICS John Edwards Alex Roland
SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce WATER John Finney
SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor WEATHER Storm Dunlop
SOUND Mike Goldsmith THE WELFARE STATE David Garland
THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Stanley Wells
Helen Graham WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill
SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling
SPINOZA Roger Scruton WORK Stephen Fineman
SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman
SPORT Mike Cronin THE WORLD TRADE
STARS Andrew King ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar
STATISTICS David J. Hand WORLD WAR II Gerhard L. Weinberg
STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack WRITING AND SCRIPT
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING Andrew Robinson
David Blockley ZIONISM Michael Stanislawski
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