The author of the dead sea scrolls is highly contraversial. Many researchers have hypothesized that a very early sect of the Jews, called the Essenes, were the authors. This is still a topic of debate and research.
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Despite decades of excavations and careful analysis, there is no consensus about who lived there—and, consequently, no consensus about who actually wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. “It’s an enigmatic and confusing site,” acknowledges Risa Levitt...
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/78441...
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Andrew Lawler has written for newsletters, newspapers and magazines about topics such as astronomy and zoology. He has been a Washington reporter covering Capitol Hill and the White House and a Boston correspondent for a science magazine wr...
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Prior to the discovery and publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, information about the identity and ideology of these different Jewish groups was derived primarily from three sources: 1) Christian literature, mainly the New Testament but also independent testimonies found in the early church Fathers;
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www.uncc.edu/jcreeves/dsscrolls.htm
www.uncc.edu/jcreeves/dsscrolls.htm
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For his part, Peleg believes Qumran went through several distinct stages. As the morning heat mounts, he leads me up a steep ridge above the site, where a channel hewn into the rock brought water into the settlement. From our high perch, ...
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Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls? (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search For The Secret Of Qumran is a book by Norman Golb which intensifies the debate over the origins of the Dead Sea scrolls, furthering the opinion that the ...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Wrote_The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls?_(book)
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-- Golb publishes Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? challenging the identification of Qumran as an Essene settlement & updating Rengstorf's argument that the scrolls came from libraries (of different groups) in Jerusalem.
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Scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a fragment of which appears below, say that crucial excavation documents are still being embargoed. Twenty years ago, a similar public battle was waged to get the scrolls themselves published. Several contr...
http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c347_a13745/Th...
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On one wall there is a quote from Israeli archaeologists Yitzhak Magan and Yuval Peleg, stating that the scrolls belonged to refugees who fled during the Jewish revolt. Just a few feet away are words from E.P. Sanders, a historian of early ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122238636935776931.html
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