The Dead Sea Scrolls Rediscovered: An Updated Look at One of Archeology's Greatest Mysteries

by Stephen Hodge

Book Overview

While providing a comprehensive introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls, this book also takes a fresh look at many controversial questions: Why were the scrolls written? Are they prophetic? How are they related to Christianity and Judaism? Stephen Hodge tells the amazing story of their discovery in 1947 as well as the historical drama being played out at the time they were written 2,000 years ago. Most significantly, he draws on fresh evidence on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569753334
• ISBN13: 9781569753330
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Informative and fascinating

The Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited was a great read. I had a cursory knowledge of the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning I understood that they were the remnants of an Essene library outside of Jerusalem and that they supported the Bible's credibility. I now understand how ignorant I was. The book is an easy read and divided very logically, although it comes to an abrupt end. It's obviously the work of a scholar and not a novelist. From this work I gained an understanding about the documents themselves, the uncertainty about the community that kept them and got some perspectives on Christianity that I would never have gleaned from Christian authors.