Faculty Publications
Document Type
Review
Publication Version
Published Version
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Qumran Chronicle
Volume
22
Issue
1-4
Abstract
This is a concise and well-written book by one of the leading experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls. John J. Collins, the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University, in the pref- ace notes that this book may seem an unlikely candidate for inclusion in a series on “biographies” of books. However, he comments that the Scrolls, although not a single book but a miscellaneous collection of writings from the caves near Qumran, is not an entirely random ac- cumulation of documents. Rather, Collins comments that they appear to reflect the thought of a Jewish sect, which many scholars identify as the Essenes, around the end of the first century B.C.E. to the early first century C.E. For this reason, the book, as Collins emphasizes, is an appropriate addition to the series “Lives of Great Religious Books.” This series aims to present short volumes that recount the histories of important religious texts from around the world.
Department
Department of History
Original Publication Date
12-2014
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2014 Enigma Press. Permission to post the article to the institutional repository granted by the publisher.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
en 01/2024. Permission given to the author by publisher. "I am friends with the publisher, who allows all articles to be placed on university-operated websites. I am also allowed to post these on other sites such as academia.edu, so there is no issue of copyright. I hope this clarifies matters. - from author Kenneth Atkinson."
