The Dead Sea Scrolls have had a complicated and often colorful history. But what is in the Scrolls and why are they important? Those are the questions most people are interested in. Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, addresses those key topics in The Dead Sea ScrollsâWhat They Really Say,
Shanks concentrates on three central questions: What do the Scrolls tell us about the development of early Christianity? What do they teach us about the Bible? And what do they tell us about the history of Judaism?
In exploring the first question, Shanks examines passages in the Scrolls that bear striking similarities to verses in the New Testament, and he explores the meaning of the concept âthe son of God.â
On the Hebrew Bible, Shanks shows how the Scrolls help explain the development of the Biblical text and the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Regarding early Judaism, Shanks places the people who wrote the Scrolls in the context of the various groups within the varied world of Judaism at the turn of the era and explores ideas that were at the heart of religious debates in that era.
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