RELIGST 2VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: 7Q5, Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, Essenes

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2VV3
• Professor: Shannon Carter

Document Summary

Religion 1b06 guest speaker: dan machiela: the bible then the bible now. By kando and sold to some people: metropolitan samuel, eliezer lipa sukenik, the american school of oriental research in jerusalem, the albright institute. W. f albright, was sent the scrolls in march of 1948. Thought this was a very big deal. Interpretation: eliezer lipa sukenik, hebrew university, what"s the big deal, the text of the bible, interpretation of the bible. Around the time when these scrolls were written: jewish groups during the the second temple period (516 bce-70ce, the location of the scroll caves and the site of qumran, close to jerusalem, khirbet qumran and the caves. Cave 4 was the site of the largest discovery. In soft limestone rather than the harder stone of cave 1: dead sea scrolls (approx. 900 scrolls found: biblical scrolls (about of corpus; 200+) Hebrew bible or christian old testament: non-biblical scrolls.