Around the holidays I usually ask for books. Sometimes this bulk of material gets stuck away on a shelf and I don’t get to it like I planned. I found this book on my shelf, completely unread since I received it this Christmas. And since Amazon has been delaying my last shipment, I completely devoured it.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited was a great read. I had a cursory knowledge of the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning I understood that they were the remnants of an Essene library outside of Jerusalem and that they supported the Bible’s credibility. I now understand how ignorant I was.
The book is an easy read and divided very logically, although it comes to an abrupt end. It’s obviously the work of a scholar and not a novelist. From this work I gained an understanding about the documents themselves, the uncertainty about the community that kept them and got some perspectives on Christianity that I would never have gleaned from Christian authors.
Book 14 of a goal of 12 for this year.
