Table of Contents

1: The Dead Sea Scrolls as Cultural Icon
2: The Dead Sea Scrolls in their Historical Context
3: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible
4: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Judaism
5: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity

About the Author

Timothy Lim is Reader in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and is a widely recognized expert in the field. His research has University ospects of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, to sectarianism, the history of the calendar, and ancient science. He is the author of Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commentaries and Pauline Letters (OUP, 1997), and is Principal Editor of Volume 1 of the official digitised
edition of the scrolls entitled The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library (1997, OUP and Brill Academic Publishers). He has made numerous media appearances to promote the public understanding of
religion.

Reviews

an excellent addition to the series Evangelical Quarterly