Alexandria and Qumran : back to the beginning / Kenneth Silver.
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TextPublisher: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 586 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), mapsContent type: - text
- still image
- cartographic image
- computer
- online resource
- 178491729X
- 9781784917296
- Qumran community
- Essenes
- Alexandria (Egypt) -- Civilization -- To 1500
- Jews -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 1500
- Communauté de Qumrān
- Esséniens
- Juifs -- Égypte -- Alexandrie -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1500
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
- Civilization
- Essenes
- Jews
- Qumran community
- Egypt -- Alexandria
- To 1500
- 296.81 23
- BM176
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most well-known archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. This book addresses the proto-history and the roots of the Qumran community and of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of contemporary scholarship in Alexandria, Egypt.
Specialized.
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 2, 2018).
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
Preface and Introduction; I Alexandria and Jewish Philosophies; II Pythagorean Philosophy; III Background to the Organisation of the Qumran-Essene Community; IV Qumran and the Pythagorean Philosophy: The Eleven Pythagorean Tetraktys in Comparison with the DSS; V Daily Life and Religion among the Qumran-Essenes; VI The Qumran Sundial and Ancient Solar Thinking; VII Back to the Beginning; VIII Summary; Sources, Bibliography, and Index.
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