Title: The scrolls and Christian origins; studies in the Jewish background of the New Testament.
Authors: Black, Matthew.
Publisher: Scribner
Year: 1961
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls.; Qumran community.; Christianity Origin
Contents: The Qumran Essenes -- The reports of the Greek historians -- The patristic accounts of Jewish sects -- Sectarian Judaism and the primitive church -- Qumran baptismal rites and sacred meal -- Legalism, prophetism, and apocalyptic -- The Qumran Messiah and related beliefs.