Where’s Esther?
Robert Alter: The Dead Sea Scrolls, 12 September 2013
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography
by John Collins.
Princeton, 272 pp., £16.95, October 2012,978 0 691 14367 5 Show More
by John Collins.
Princeton, 272 pp., £16.95, October 2012,
The Essenes, the Scrolls and the Dead Sea
by Joan Taylor.
Oxford, 418 pp., £30, November 2012,978 0 19 955448 5 Show More
by Joan Taylor.
Oxford, 418 pp., £30, November 2012,
“... else associated with the Scrolls, the identification has been hotly contested. A new book by Joan Taylor, a professor at King’s College London, does not really deal with the contents of the Scrolls but instead concentrates on two related issues: the nature of the Essenes and whether they were likely candidates to be keepers of the Qumran ... ”