This CD-ROM from the Biblical Archaeology Society presents the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Ideal for: churches, lecturers and college professors—or your own personal enjoyment.
Major topics include: • The Setting • Discovery and Acquisition • The First Scrolls • The Excavations at Qumran • The Qumran Water System • The Qumran Buildings • The Caves • The Scrollery, Preservation and Research • Two Unique Scrolls • The Publishing Bottleneck • Qumran Connections... with Christians?...with Zealots?
CD-ROM Features: • Classroom presentation quality • Ability to create your own slideshows • Lengthy captions written and edited by Dan Cole, professor of biblical studies and ancient Mediterranean archaeology at Lake Forest College in Illinois, with Dr. Hanan Eshel of Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
Windows (Win98, Pentium II, 64 MB; Win2K, Pentium III, 128 MB; WinXP, Pentium III, 128 MB
Macintosh OS X (Power Macintosh G3, Running OS 10.1.5, 10.2.6, 10.3, 10.4; 128 MB RAM)
142 slides.
COMPLETE LIST OF IMAGES:
The Setting
Journey from Jerusalem Farther into the Judean Desert Sea Level Sign Traditional Place of John’s Baptisms Dead Sea Water Level Mark, Dead Sea ’Ain Feshkha Spring Building Remains at ’Ain Feshkha Ras Feshkha Khirbet Mazin
Discovery and Acquisition
Cave 1, General View, Limestone Cliffs Cave 1, Close-up View, Outside Cave 1, View from Inside Qumran Pottery Vessels Bedouin Discoverers of Cave 1 Antiquities Dealer “Kando” Eleazar L. Sukenik Yigael Yadin and James Biberkraut Metropolitan Samuel Wall Street Journal Advertisement Shrine of the Book, Exterior Shrine of the Book, Interior
The First Scrolls
First Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) Second Isaiah Scroll (1QIsab) Genesis Apocryphon (lQapGen) Habakkuk Commentary (lQpHab) Manual of Discipline (1QS) Thanksgiving Psalms (1QH) War Scroll (1QM)
The Excavations at Qumran
Qumran Terrace and Settlement, Viewed from Nearby Cave Qumran Settlement and Wadi, General View Father Roland de Vaux Qumran Settlement, Aerial View
The Qumran Water System
Round Cistern Wadi Qumran, View to Dead Sea Wadi Qumran, View to Floor Water Channel, Upper End Water Tunnel and Channel Water Channel on Terrace Covered Water Channel Rectangular Cistern Mikveh Cistern Showing Fault Line Juglet and Silver Coins
The Qumran Buildings
Dining Hall Pantry, View from Dining Hall De Vaux with Pots in Pantry Scriptorium, Study Room and Library/Storage Room Scriptorium Scriptorium. Writing Table and Bench Inkwells Study Room Benches Study Room Wall Niche, Interior View Study Room Wall Niche, Detail Study Room Wall Niche, Exterior View Library/Storage Room Stairway to Upper Floor Pottery Kiln Cemetery Column Bases Tower Tower Glacis Plan of Qumran Community
The Caves
Map of Cave Locations Caves 4 and 5, View from Wadi Floor Cave 4, View from Qumran Community Cave 4, Excavators’ New Entrance Cave 4, View to Dead Sea Cave 4, Interior Cave 3 (Copper Scroll Cave) Cave 11 (Temple Scroll Cave) Caves Excavated by Vendyl Jones
The Scrollery, Preservation and Research
Rockefeller Museum The Scrollery Fathers de Vaux and Milik with G. L. Harding Father Milik Examining Fragments John Strugnell Frank Moore Cross, Jr. John Allegro International Research Team Working with Fragments Hebrew Fragment Paleo-Hebrew Fragment Greek Fragment Leather Fragment Papyrus Fragment Isaiah Scroll Column Name of the Deity in Paleo-Hebrew “Lost” Fragment of Samuel Damage Shown on Rolled Scroll Damage Shown on Unrolled Scroll Phylactery
Two Unique Scrolls
Copper Scroll, As Found Cutting the Copper Scroll Copper Scroll, Single Strip Copper Scroll on Display Enhanced Copper Scroll Temple Scroll Joseph Uhrig, “Mr. Z” Temple Scroll, Plan of Jerusalem Temple Plan Compared to Temple Mount
The Publishing Bottleneck
Geza Vermes Hershel Shanks Strugnell with “Fleas” on Cover of BAR Emanuel Tov Fragments of 4QMMT Elisha Qimron
Qumran Connections … with Christians? … with Zealots?
“Pierced Messiah” Fragment (4Q285) Enhanced View of “Pierced Messiah” Fragment “Son of God” Fragment (4Q246) “Messiah Apocalypse” Fragment (4Q521) Greek Fragment from Mark? (7Q5) Masada, Aerial View Masada Synagogue “Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice” Fragment, Masada Manuscript Discoveries near the Dead Sea |