From the Book - First edition
Discovering the scrolls / Harry Thomas Frank --
Historical context of the scrolls / Frank Moore Cross --
Sadducean origins of the Dead Sea scroll sect / Lawrence H. Schiffman --
People of the Dead Sea scrolls : Essenes or Sadducees? / James C. VanderKam --
"First Dead Sea scroll" found in Egypt fifty years before Qumran discoveries / Raphael Levy --
Essene origins : Palestine or Babylonia? / Hershel Shanks --
Temple scroll : the longest Dead Sea scroll / Yigael Yadin --
Gigantic dimensions of the visionary temple in the temple scroll / Magen Broshi --
Intrigue and the scroll / Hershel Shanks --
Is the temple scroll a sixth book of the Torah, lost for 2,500 years? / Hartmut Stegemann.
Text behind the text of the Hebrew Bible ; Light on the Bible from the Dead Sea caves / Frank Moore Cross --
When the sons of God cavorted with the daughters of men / Ronald S. Hendel --
Dead Sea scrolls and Christianity / James C. VanderKam --
Unpublished Dead Sea scroll text parallels Luke's infancy narrative / Hershel Shanks --
Was John the Baptist an Essene? / Otto Betz --
New light on the Pharisees / Lawrence H. Schiffman --
Mystery of the copper scroll / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. --
How to connect Dead Sea scroll fragments / Hartmut Stegemann --
Interview with chief scroll editor, John Strugnell / Avi Katzman --
Silence, anti-semitism, and the scrolls ; Is the Vatican suppressing the Dead Sea scrolls? / Hershel Shanks.