The Message of the Scrolls

TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART I -- 1.) Discovery: The Hebrew University -- 2.) The Monastery of St. Mark -- 3.) Destiny -------------- PART II -- 4.) The cave of the scrolls -- 5.) The other caves -- 6.) The communal building of Khirbet Qumran -- 7.) The cemetery -- 8.) Wadi Murabba'at or the archives of Bar-Kochbah -------------- PART III -- 9.) The scrolls: General -- 10.) The Isaiah Scrolls -- 11.) The Habukkuk Commentary -- 12.) The Commentary on Psalms and the Commentary on Nahum -- 13.) The Thanksgiving Hymns -------------- PART IV -- 14.) The Manual of Discipline or the Rule of the Community, and the Damascus Covenant -- 15.) The Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness -- 16.) The Scroll of the Apocryphal Genesis -- 17.) The Copper Scrolls - The Scrolls of Treasures -- 18.) The date of the scrolls and the identification of the sect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . This book will be of importance to all who are interested in the discovery and revolutionary importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Its three purposes remain important: to present the facts about the seven Scrolls found in Cave I and the Cairo Damascus Document so that readers can draw their own conclusions; to provide an account of the discovery of the Scrolls and especially the acquisition of three by Sukenik and four by Yadin for the Hebrew University; and, more importantly, to describe each of the seven Scrolls and its contents.