Voices from the Dust

The Lost Scrolls That Changed History

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Mark Senior

▪Marked Motion

Verlag:

Independently Published

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34848157

EAN: 9798186559474

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 25.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 27.25

Beschreibung

A shepherd boy threw a stone into a cave looking for a lost goat. He found the most important library of the ancient world. In 1947, that stone struck a clay jar in the cliffs above the Dead Sea, and two thousand years of silence broke open. What followed was a story of scholars and shepherds, a cobbler who became an antiquities dealer, a classified advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, a forty-year academic embargo one scholar called "the academic scandal of the century," and a discovery that would eventually reach a computer screen and a bullet-shaped museum in Jerusalem. VOICES FROM THE DUST. tells the complete, human story of the Dead Sea Scrolls: the desert community that copied and preserved them, the cave that hid them for two millennia, and the century of politics, scandal, forgery, and scholarship that followed their discovery. Inside, you'll discover:. Who really found the scrolls, and how a goat started one of history's great discoveries. The Qumran community, the Teacher of Righteousness, and the Wicked Priest they wrote against. What the scrolls reveal about the Bible before the Bible existed in its familiar form. The forty-year suppression that scholars themselves called a scandal, and why it happened. The forgery scandal that fooled the Museum of the Bible, and how it was exposed. What the scrolls do and do not say about the Jesus Question. Why eleven copies of Enoch and fifteen copies of Jubilees found at Qumran matter as much as the biblical texts. Every claim in this book is graded by evidentiary weight, established fact, probable reconstruction, or genuine scholarly debate, so you always know exactly how solid the ground beneath you is. Where serious scholars disagree, both sides are heard in full. Nothing is invented for drama. Nothing uncertain is presented as settled. This is not a book that tells you what to believe about scripture, faith, or the ancient world. It is a book that hands you the evidence and trusts you to think. The voices have waited two thousand years in the dust. It's time to listen.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Mark Senior
Marked Motion

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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