Communities of the Last Days 
Subtitle: The Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament & the Story of Israel
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780830815975
Subjects: Relation to the New Testament; N.T; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Religion - World Religions; Religion; N.T.; Christianity - General; Comparative Religion; Judaism - Sacred Writings; Bible; Dead Sea scrolls
First sentence: For many years the DSS, like Israel of old, though in their land, were still in exile; both Scrolls and nation found themselves in the hands of non-Jews.
Description: "Drawing on the Recent Flowering of Dead Sea Scroll studies and utilizing the interpretive angle offered by N. T. Wright, Marvin Pate explores the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament. How did the Essene community of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian communities of the New Testament express their distinct self-understandings as communities living in the last days and fulfilling the story of Israel?

Viewed through the lenses of hermeneutical perspective, messianic belief, the reverse of the Deuteronomic curse, the promised new covenant, and the nexus of symbol, praxis and story, the Scrolls cast interpretive light on familiar New Testament texts."--BOOK JACKET.