xviii, 201 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173) and indexes

The 101 questions and responses -- 1. What are the dead sea scrolls? -- 2. What is Qumran and what relation do the dead sea scrolls have to it? -- 3. How did the scrolls come to be deposited in the caves? -- 4. Who discovered the QS? -- 5. When were the QS discovered? -- 6. In what country were the QS discovered? -- 7. Where are the QS today? -- 8. Who owns the QS? -- 9. How did Israel acquire the seven major scrolls of cave 1? -- 10. How did various foreign institutions get involved in the cave 4 publication project? -- 11. Did any cave 4 fragments fail to end un in the scrollery of the Palestine archaeological museum? -- 12. Could the QS lack any connection with the Qumran community? -- 13. What QS have been definitively published? 14. Are the QS all texts of the OT? -- 15. Of what sort are the nonbiblical writings of Qumran? -- 16. In what languages have the QS been written? -- 17. Are there any NT texts among the QS? -- 18. How are the QS dated? -- 19. What sort of texts were discovered in cave 1? -- 20. What sort of texts were discovered in cave 2? -- 21. What sort of texts were discovered in cave 3? -- 22. What sort of texts were discovered in cave 4? -- 23. What sort of texts were discovered in caves 5 and 6? -- 24. What texts were found in cave 7? -- 25. What texts were discovered in caves 8, 9, 10? -- 26. What texts were discovered in cave 11? -- 27. Are any of the QS related to the texts discovered at Masada or Khirbet Mird or in the caves of Murabba'at, Nahal Hever, Se'elim, and Mishmar? -- 28. What is the manual of discipline? -- 29. What is the Damascus document? -- 30. What is the war scroll? -- 31. What are the thanksgiving psalms? -- 32. What are the pesharim? -- 33. What is the Genesis Apocryphon? -- 34. What is the copper plaque? -- 35. What is the temple scroll? -- 36. What is the psalms scroll of cave 11? -- 37. What is the Targum of Job of cave 11? -- 38. How have the QS aided the study of the text of the OT? -- 39. What do the QS contribute to our understanding of apocalyptic literature? -- 40. What light do the QS shed on ancient forms of the Hebrew or Aramaic languages? -- 41. What light do the QS shed on ancient Judaism? -- 42. Were the members of the Qumran community Torah-observant Jews? -- 43. How do the authors of the QS conceive of God? -- 44. What do the QS tell us about how the people who wrote them understand time and history? -- 45. Did the Qumran community hsave a messianic expectation? -- 46. Who was the teacher of righteousness? -- 47. Did the Qumran community believe that its teacher of righteousness was a Messiah? -- 48. Did the community think that the teacher of righteousness had been put to death? -- 49. Does any Qumran text mention crucifixion? -- 50. Did the Qumran community think that its teacher of righteousness was to come back? -- 51. But do not some texts mention the coming of the interpreter of the law at the end of days? -- 52. Did entrance into the Qumran community require a period of testing or initiation? -- 53. Were the members of the Qumran community celibate? -- 54. What was distinctive about the theological tenets of the Qumran community? -- 55. What do the QS tell us about the ritual life of the community?

56. Do the QS give us any information about the sectarian communal meals? -- 57. Do the QS tell us anything about the dietary habits of the community? -- 58. Do the QS tell us anything about how the community functioned and was governed? -- 59. Do the QS tell us anything about how members of the community settled their differences? -- 60. What is known about the Qumran community's calendar and celebration of festivals? -- 61. What do the QS tell us about the community's observance of the Sabbath? -- 62. What was the community's attitude toward the temple in Jerusalem? -- 63. What do the QS tell us about the community's dealings with gentiles? -- 64. What relation do the QS have to the Pharisees or Sadducees mentioned in the NT? -- 65. Who were the Essenes? -- 66. What other ancient writers tell us about the Essenes? 67. Is the identification of the Qumran community with the Essenes certain? -- 68. How does the Qumran understanding of God differ from that in the NT? -- 69. How do the QS help in the study of the NT? -- 70. Is John the Baptist mentioned in the QS? Could he have been a member of the Essene community at Qumran? -- 71. Is Jesus of Nazareth mentioned in any of the QS? -- 72. Is there mention of anything Christian in the QS? -- 73. Have genuine parallels to NT ideas and phrases been discovered in the QS? -- 74. Do the QS shed any light on Christological titles used in the NT? -- 75. Does the title "son of man," which appears so frequently on the lips of Jesus in the gospels, occur in the QS? -- 76. Is the "servant of Yahweh" theme used in the QS? -- 77. What sort of parallels have been found to the matthean gospel? -- 78. What sort of parallels have been found to Johannine writings? -- 79. Is not the phrase "sons of light" used elsewhere in the NT too? -- 80. What sort of parallels have been found to Pauline letters? -- 81. What light have the QS shed on the epistle to the Hebrews? -- 82. In the NT Jesus forbids divorce; is there anything like that in the QS? -- 83. Did the subsequent history of the Qumran sect contribute in any way to Jewish Christianity? -- 84. What relation did the Qumran community have to later Christian monasticism? -- 85. Why have the scrolls from cave 4 created such a problem as was recently described in news media? -- 86. What stirred up the recent interest in the QS? -- 87. Who assembled the team of scholars to work on cave 4 fragments? -- 88. Was any Qumran scroll published by someone who was not part of the international team? -- 89. Why were there no Jewish scholars on the international team? -- 90. Have the cave 4 texts so far published been competently handled? -- 91. How did it come about that there is a concordance of cave 4 texts, when the texts themselves have not yet been published? -- 92. Who "bootlegged" cave 4 texts by reconstructing them from the concordance? -- 93. How can a concordance be used to reconstruct a text? -- 94. Can the cave 4 texts so reconstructed be trusted? -- 95. Have the photographs of all the cave 4 texts been published? -- 96. Is this a wise or prudent course of action? -- 97. Have there been tendentious readings of the QS? -- 98. Have there been other tendentious readings of the QS? -- 99. Is there any truth to the claim that Allegro made that his colleagues on the team were suppressing texts? -- 100. Has there been a conspiracy to hold up the publication of the scrolls? -- 101. But do the QS contain anything that would tend to undermine Christian faith?

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