Qumran, (Paperback)

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 is considered the most important archaeological event of the 20th century. More than 800 documents written between the 3rd century BC and 70 AD contain the oldest texts of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and a large collection of writings describing the social, political, and religious context of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period and the origins of Christianity. From the day when some young Bedouins recovered a goat that had fallen into a desert cave full of Hebrew and Greek scrolls, legend has accompanied the story of the discovery. The author, one of the world's leading experts on these manuscripts, presents this extensive literature and the current state of research. In these pages, we will discover the content of all the identified manuscripts, from the large scrolls to the smaller, more deteriorated fragments. We will learn about the working methods used by archaeologists, philologists, and paleographers to reconstruct the textual gaps present in a large part of the manuscripts and the contribution of Artificial Intelligence to the recovery of texts that had been lost and that the human eye would never have been able to see.

• Qumran, (Paperback)
• Author: Erasmus Ediciones
• ISBN: 9788415462316
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-07-28
• Page Count: 396