商品簡介
Once they were lost, but now are found, but Fields, executive director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation in Jerusalem, offers a fuller history than that. Except in the chronology, he is not concerned with how the documents were generations and ended in hidden at Qumran. Rather he focuses on what has become of them since the initial discovery in 1947, how they have and have not been made accessible scholars and the public, and the impact they have made and are continuing to make in history and religion. Lavishly and colorfully illustrated. There is no index. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Weston W. Fields, PhD., has been Executive Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation in Jerusalem since 1991. He taught at Grace College and Theological Seminary for ten years and at the Institute of Holy Land Studies (now Jerusalem University College) for seven years. For the past fifteen years he has worked closely with the editors of the official publication of the scrolls. Since 1999 he has traveled extensively in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States in order to interview everyone from the first generation of scrolls scholars then alive, including those who discovered the scrolls in the 1950s, or were the first to reconstruct them. As a result of these personal meetings he has amassed a large and diverse collection of personal letters, papers, and archives related to the first scrolls scholars, especially the famous Qumran Cave 4 Team.
