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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS UNCOVERED by Eisenman, Robert and Michael Wise
1st Edition
Book Description
Shaftsbury, Dorset, UK: Element, 1992 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. 8vo. x, 286, (16) pp. Bound in publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 16 pages of glossy B&W photographs. Includes detailed index. Erratum slip from publisher laid in. This is a new, unopened copy. Both the volume and the dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW. This long-awaited volume received a ready welcome by both scholars and non-specialists alike, who are interested in Jewish history and Christian origins. These texts provide exciting and ground-breaking insights into Messianism, an alternative presentation of the flood story, ecstatic visions, prophecies, mysteries, astrology, divination and much more. Sections include: Messianic and Visionary Recitals; Prophets & Pseudo-prophets; Biblical Interpretation; Calendrical Texts & Priestly Courses; Testaments & Admonitions; Works Reckoned as Righteousness - Legal Texts; Hymns & Mysteries; Divination, Magic & Miscellaneous. Robert Eisenman is Professor of Middle East Religions and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. The author of several books on the scrolls, he was a leading figure in the worldwide campaign to gain access to the Scrolls and instrumental in the publication of the Facsimile Edition of the unpublished Scrolls. A consultant on the Huntington Library's decision to open the archives, he was the first scholar to gain access to its collection. He is the author of Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians and Qumran; James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher; James the Brother of Jesus; The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians; A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Co-Editor) ; The New Testament Code; The Gospel Code; Eschatological "Rain" Imagery in the War Scroll from Qumran and in the Letter of James; and numerous scholarly articles. Michael Wise is an Assistant Professor of Aramaic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation; The First Messiah; A Critical Study of the Temple Scroll from Qumran Cave Eleven; Thunder in Gemini and Other Essays on the History, Language and Literature of Second Temple Palestine; as well as numerous scholarly articles. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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