Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls

by Edmund Wilson

Overview

The author of To the Finland Station and Axel's Castle brilliantly examines the significance of the scrolls' discovery and their role in Jewish history with this insightful biblical study, Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls

“Reading him, it is not difficult to imagine the ardor with which Edmund Wilson pursued his complex subject; it was the kind of subject he had always liked best, involving as it did history, politics, ancient lore, and all his faculties for imaginative reconstruction and historical analysis … No book quite like this has been written in our century.” —Leon Edel, from the introduction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466899605
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	11/05/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	441
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.

Table of Contents

ISRAEL 1954; I: On First Reading Genesis; II: Eretz Yisrael; The Dead Sea Scrolls 1947-1969; The Scrolls From The Dead Sea 1955; I: The Metropolitan Samuel; II: The Essene Order; III: The Monastery; IV: The Teacher Of Righteousness; V: What Would Renan Have Said?; VI: General Yadin; I955-I967; I: Polemics; II: The Genesis Apocryphon; III: The Psalms; IV: The Nahum Pesher; V: John Allegro; VI: The Copper Scrolls; VII: The Texts; VIII: The Testimonia; IX: The Epistle To The Hebrews; X: Masada; XI: Dubious Documents; “On The Eve 1967”; I: Tattoo; II: Palestinians; III: The Two Jerusalems; IV: The New Israel National Museum; V: Conversations With Yadin And Flusser; VI: Departure; The June War And The Temple Scroll; General Reflections

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Review on Amazon.com from previous publication of Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls: "Mr. Wilson has been a wizard in his conquering of the facts of an incredibly involved archaeological story."

—Christian Century

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