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Article: Edward D. Herbert and Emanuel Tov, eds. The Bible as Book: the Hebrew Bible and the Judean Desert Discoveries.(Book Review)
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- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
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- March 22, 2004
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Edward D. Herbert and Emanuel Toy, eds. The Bible as Book: The Hebrew Bible and the Judean Desert Discoveries. London and New Castle, Del: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press in Association with The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities, 2002. x, 360 pp., 8 pp. plates; $60.00 (US) (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-083-5 (US); 0-7123-4726-7 (UK).
Throughout my years of full-time parish ministry I was often asked questions about the Dead Sea Scrolls or, more generally about where the Bible came from. It seems that popular rumour credits the scrolls with a strange power of affirming or denying all manner of things about the origin of the Bible and Christianity. ...