The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library

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The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library is written by Sidnie White Crawford and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004305068 (ISBN 10) and 9789004305069 (ISBN 13).

The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library presents twelve articles by renowned experts in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies. These articles explore from various angles the question of whether or not the collection of manuscripts found in the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran can be characterized as a “library,” and, if so, what the relation of that library is to the ruins of Qumran and the group of Jews that inhabited them. The essays fall into the following categories: the collection as a whole, subcollections within the overall corpus, and the implications of identifying the Qumran collection as a library.