Qumran between the Old and New Testaments

Download or read book Qumran between the Old and New Testaments written by Frederick H. Cryer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the International Scandinavian Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran, sponsored by the University of Copenhagen and held in 1995. In addition to the contributions of Florentino Garc'a Mart'nez, Emanuel Tov and Ben Zion Wacholder, this collection offers a wide range of recent Scandinavian scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Central issues dealt with include the dating of the scrolls, the theological relationships between the Scrolls and the Old Testament, questions relating to text and tradition formation, and the social relations between Qumran and contemporary Jewish sectarianism.