New Book to add to the DSS Reading List

[Via DoveNews: Hebrew Bible List]

Eshel, Hanan David Louvish, Aryeh Amihay (trans)

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State

(Wm. B. Eerdmans, Published 2008)

Paperback List: $28.00 Dove Price: $17.99 Save $10.01 (36%)

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State is the first book dedicated solely to the question of how we can learn political history from the Qumran scrolls. Hanan Eshel unpacks and summarizes the historical information contained in the scrolls. He then goes on to demonstrate that Josephus’s description of the political history of the Hasmonean period is reliable.

This version of Eshel's 2004 Hebrew publication has been expertly translated for an English-speaking audience. It has also been updated to reflect more recent scholarship and includes a totally new bibliography of English resources.

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And after reading the book, you can catch the panel discussion at SBL.

SBL24-147

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Panel Discussion of Hanan Eshel, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State (Eerdmans 2008)
11/24/2008 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Room: Republic A - SH

Bennie Reynolds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Presiding
James VanderKam, University of Notre Dame, Panelist
Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Panelist
Kenneth Atkinson, University of Northern Iowa, Panelist
Michael Wise, Northwestern College, Panelist
Hanan Eshel, Bar Ilan University, Panelist