TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,John J.
TI  - The Dead Sea scrolls: a biography 
T2  - Lives of great religious books
SN  - 9780691143675 (hardcover)
AV  - BM 487 .C564 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - Qumran community
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242) and indexes; The discovery of the scrolls -- The Essenes -- The site of Qumran -- The scrolls and Christianity -- The scrolls and Judaism -- The Scrolls and the Bible -- The battle for the scrolls -- Appendix : personalities in the discovery and subsequent controversies
N2  - Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination-- and controversy-- than perhaps any other archaeological find. Collins sheds light on the bitter conflicts that have swirled around the scrolls, and sheds lights on their true significance for Jewish and Christian history
ER  -