The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
34. What Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Reveal about the Biblical Text?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Sidnie White Crawford [+]
University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Sidnie White Crawford holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and is Professor emerita in Hebrew Bible at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. She has published The Text of the Pentateuch: Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), and Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019).
Description
The scrolls recovered in the twentieth century from caves along the western shores of the Dead Sea are much older than the earliest available complete Hebrew codices. Despite their often-fragmentary state, these scrolls teach a great deal about the pre-canonic history of biblical texts.