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The Dead Sea Scrolls Today

by James C. VanderKam · 1994

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This perennially bestselling book on the Dead Sea Scrolls by one of the fields most respected scholars has now been revised and updated to reflect scholarship and debates since the book was first published in 1994.

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ancient historyancient historyMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 276 pages

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