4. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls, who wrote them, and why?

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  • Collins, John Joseph and Craig A. Evans, eds. 2006. Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.
  • Collins, John Joseph and Robert A. Kugler, eds. 2000. Religion in the Dead Sea scrolls. Studies in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans.
  • Falk, Daniel K. 2007. The Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Companion to the Qumran Scrolls 8. London/New York: T&T Clark International.
  • García Martínez, Florentino and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, eds. 1997-98. The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. 2 vols. Leiden/Grand Rapids: Brill/Eerdmans.
  • Henze, Matthias, ed. 2005. Biblical interpretation at Qumran. Studies in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Magness, Jodi. 2002. The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Swarup, Paul. 2006. The Self-Understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community: An Eternal Planting, A House of Holiness. Library of Second Temple Studies 59. London/New York: T & T Clark.
  • Ulrich, Eugene Charles. 1999. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible. Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids/Leiden: Eerdmans/Brill.
  • Ulrich, Eugene Charles and James C. VanderKam, eds. 1994. The Community of the Renewed Covenant. Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
  • VanderKam, James C. and Peter W. Flint. 2002. The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

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