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 |
