Dr. Gary Gromacki
Associate Professor of Bible and Homiletics
Baptist Bible Seminary
Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania
<ggromacki>at<bbc>dot<edu>
Here are some links to web sites dealing with the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). My listing of these links does not mean that I agree with all the content in them, but they should be helpful to anyone wanting to do more research on the DSS.
http://www.bibleplaces.com - This web site gives high resolution digital photographs of the archaeological site of Qumran. The Qumran pictures are found on the Samaria CD.
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il - The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature was established in 1995 as part of the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Orion Center aims to stimulate and foster research on the DSS, particularly the great task of integrating the new information gained from the Scrolls into the body of knowledge about Jewish history and religion in the Second Temple period. Such integration will affect areas such as biblical studies, Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, early Christianity and the New Testament, the study of early rabbinic Judaism and more. This site gives web sites and a detailed, annotated bibliography for the study of the DSS. The Orion Center web site gives an annotated bibliography of Brill publications on the DSS and a cumulative index of the Discoveries in the Judean Desert (DJD) series. It also lists conferences, lectures and exhibits dealing with the DSS on its bulletin board.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/dead_sea_scrolls/- This is the West Semitic Research Project's materials related to the DSS.
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html - Internet exhibit of the Library of Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The web site has pictures and descriptions of some scroll fragments from the Qumran library as well as artifacts taken from Qumran: textiles, phylacteries, pottery, sandals, etc.
http://www.ao.net/~fmoeller/qumdir.htm - This web site gives actual pictures of the Great Isaiah Scroll dated to 100 B.C. Notes and commentary on the scroll are given by Fred Miller.
http://www.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/deadsea.htm - This web site focuses on the historic, literary, and cultural significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran. It is only marginally interested in their religious significance.
http://www.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/caves.htm - This web site gives an inventory of manuscripts from the eleven original caves of Qumran. References are from the series Discoveries in the Judean Desert (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955-) and they are assigned numbers DJD I, DJD II, DJD III, etc.
http://www.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/timelinm.htm - Timeline on the discovery of the DSS from 1946-1955.
http://www.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/bibliog.htm - This site gives a detailed, ninety-five page annotated bibliography of DSS research in alphabetical order by author. It includes abstracts on selected theses as well.
http://www.centuryone.com/720-7.html - Here is the must have CD-ROM entitled: The Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed. This interactive CD-ROM gives close up pictures of the lettering on the DSS, flies the viewer through unique 3D constructions of the Qumran settlement and of the conceptual Temple as described in the DSS. It gives historical overviews of the discovery of the DSS, Qumran, and the Essenes with over 70 minutes of unique historical video, interviews with leading DSS scholars, and color images of the scrolls themselves.
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/SCR/Scrolls.html - The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has some information on the DSS. The Dead Sea Scrolls Project was established by the Oriental Institute during the months that followed the freeing of the scrolls (autumn 1991). The project involved the deciphering and translating from photographs the manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 that had previously remained unpublished. Another project was the identification of the authors of the scrolls and to examine the specifics of the Khirbet Qumran site and the theory that the manuscripts found in the nearby caves were composed by the sect that lived there.
http://www.otgateway.com/deadseascrolls.htm - Here is a website entitled Old Testament Gateway that includes articles on the DSS. It is from Tabor College Victoria in Australia.
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/programs/aerial.shtml -Aerial photographs of Qumran. These photographs were taken by Dr. Yizhar Hirshfield (Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) for a research project funded by a grant from the Orion Center.
http://religion.rutgers.edu/iho/dss.html#Sukenik - Rutgers University web site on the Dead Sea Scrolls includes a timeline of the discovery and debate on the DSS.
http://www.historian.net/files.htm - DSS scribal font and other ANE fonts
http://www.uncc.edu/jdtabor/gallery.html - DSS Pictures of the Hosea commentary, Community Rule and War Rule
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html - Library of Congress web site on the DSS.
http://www.bib-arch.org - This is the web site of Biblical Archaeology Review giving a list of excavations at biblical sites and topics in biblical archaeology.
http://mosaic.lk.net/g-qumran.html - This site contains a summary of the history of Qumran and a description of the Qumran sect.
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/ - This site containing information on manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah is maintained by the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library.
http://www.brandx.net/dbajot/deadsea/ - Web site of David Bajot on the DSS includes photographs, maps, and links.
http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/qumran.html - Web site of Meir Bar-Ilan includes photographs of Qumran, the Copper Scroll, and two academic papers.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/pflint/ - Peter Flint's web site on the DSS contains books and electronic resoruces on the DSS and biblical studies.
http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msjan/archaeom.html - Web site of Jan Gunneweg contains information on the jars found at Qumran.
http://www.uncc.edu/jdtabor/dss.html - Dr. James Tabor's web site on the DSS.
http://www.NTResources.com -This site contains New Testament resources by Dr. Rod Decker, Associate Professor of New Testament at Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/phd/depriest/homepage1.html -This site deals with apocalyptic literature and its relationship to the New Testament. It was done by Roger DePriest, a fellow PhD student in the class NT 4- New Testament Backgrounds at Baptist Bible Seminary.
www.slusser.us -This site
contains material on the Apocrypha and its relationship to the New Testament. It
was done by Wayne Slusser, a fellow PhD student in the class NT4- New Testament
Backgrounds at Baptist Bible Seminary.
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LINKS TO OTHER DSS WEB PAGES BY DR. GARY GROMACKI
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