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Book: The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes

Chapter: 34. What Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal about the Biblical Text?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44887

Blurb:

The scrolls recovered in the twentieth century from caves along the western shores of the Dead Sea are much older than the earliest available complete Hebrew codices. Despite their often-fragmentary state, these scrolls teach a great deal about the pre-canonic history of biblical texts.

Chapter Contributors

  • Sidnie White Crawford ([email protected] - swcrawford) 'University of Nebraska- Lincoln'