Who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls?
Subtitle: the search for the secret of Qumran
By: Norman Golb.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Touchstone
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Sources
Notes: "A Touchstone book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-445) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Qumran Plateau; title: The manuscripts of the Jews; title: 1947: the first scroll discoveries; title: The Qumran-Essene theory: a paradigm reconsidered; title: The Copper Scroll, the Masada manuscripts, and the siege of Jerusalem; title: Scroll origins: Rengstorf's theory and Edmund Wilson's response; title: The Temple Scroll, the Acts of Torah, and the Qumranologists' dilemma; title: Power politics and the collapse of the scrolls monopoly; title: Myth and science in the world of Qumranology; title: The deepening scrolls controversy; title: The New York conference and some academic intrigues; title: The importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls; title: Judaism, Christianity, and the Scrolls.