First edition
Condition: Very good plus softcover, light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover. Softcover.
Publishing Info: Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2003
ISBN: 9781403961433
In this controversial book, Dr. Thiede focuses on what are, perhaps, the most enigmatic ancient documents ever found - the Dead Sea Scrolls. Drawing on his own pioneering methods in restoring the scrolls, Thiede reveals that the Essene library represented by the scrolls demonstrates that the first Christians were essentially a Jewish movement, not a radically new and fundamentally different religion. This perspective clearly has major implications: it affects both how we view the scrolls, and it changes how we consider the history of first-century Christianity.
