Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Isaiah Scroll -- Chapter 1: Discovery and Purchase of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Qumran, Cave 1: 1947-49 -- The Search Continues: 1949 -- New Discoveries: Murabba'at, 1951 -- Caves 2 and 3, Qumran, 1952 -- Khirbet Mird, 1952 -- Nahal Hever, 1952 -- Qumran Cave 4, 1952 -- More Cave 4 fragments -- Sukenik dies, 1953 -- The St. Mark's Scrolls return to Jerusalem, 1954 -- Qumran Caves 7-10 -- Masada, 1955 -- Qumran Cave 11 -- the Suez Crisis, 1956 -- Further Discoveries, 1958-1965 -- Habakkuk Commentary Scroll -- Chapter 2: Study and Publication -- Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Survival of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Past and Future -- Archaeology and Qumran -- Manual of Discipline Scroll -- Chapter 3: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible -- Phylacteries -- The Non-biblical Dead Sea Scrolls -- Testimonia Scroll -- Chapter 4: The Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism, and Christianity -- Rule of the Congregation Scroll -- Chapter 5: Qumran and the Essenes -- The Essenes as Described by Josephus in his Jewish Wars -- The Essenes as Described by Josephus in his Jewish Antiquities -- The Essenes as Described by Philo of Alexandria, "That Every Good Man is Free" -- The Essenes as Described by Philo of Alexandria, In Defense of the Jews -- The Essenes as Described by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History -- Differences between Josephus and the Scrolls -- Psalms Scroll -- |