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This CD-ROM tells the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls—their discovery and acquisition, the excavations at Qumran, the caves, their preservation and decipherment, the publishing bottleneck, plus a look at important individual scrolls.
Photos are accompanied by extensive captions written by world-renowned scholar and archaeologist Dan P. Cole, emeritus professor of religion and Mediterranean archaeology, Lake Forest College.
CD-ROM Features:
• Classroom-presentation quality
• Ability to create your own slideshows
• Ability to copy and paste into documents
• Lengthy captions written and edited by noted scholars
System Requirements:
Windows:
• Win98, Pentium II, 64 MB
• Win2K, Pentium III, 128 MB
• WinXP, Pentium III, 128 MB
Macintosh:
• Power Macintosh G3, running OS 10.1.5 to 10.4
• 128 MB RAM
The slideshow function is optimized for a projector running a 1024 x 768 display, though an 800 x 600 display may be sufficient for editing.
MAJOR TOPICS
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?
PARTIAL LIST OF SLIDES
The Dead Sea
Journey from Jerusalem
Building Remains at ’Ain Feshkha
Cave Interior and Exterior Views
Qumran Pottery Vessels
Bedouin Discoverers of Cave 1
Eleazer L. Sukenik
Metropolitan Samuel
Shrine of the Book
The Isaiah Scrolls
Genesis Apocryphon
Habakkuk Commentary
Manual of Discipline
Thanksgiving Psalms
War Scroll
Excavations at Qumran
Khirbet Qumran, Aerial View
Qumran Water System
Cisterns and Mikveh with Earthquake Fault
Coins Dating Rebuilding
Qumran Buildings
Scriptorium
Bronze and Pottery Ink Wells
Copper Scroll
116 images.
ITEM: 8H61
ISBN: 978-1-935335-25-2
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