A review of the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, by Abegg, Flint, and Ulrich. This book (ISBN 0060600632, 9780060600631) is a hardback 649 pages long containing an English translation of the Biblical material from the Dead Sea Scrolls, with the books of the Bible arranged in their historical order. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible includes a guide entitled “How to Read This Book,” many informative book introductions, and extensive page-bottom notes that show variant readings. A paperback edition is available -- ISBN 9780060600648.
Detailed contents
00:00 Details: dimensions, margins, layout, font, paper … two charts
00:58 The ISBN
01:27 The Brodart archival dust jacket cover
01:52 The glued binding, plus a look at the tail band
01:59 The book does not lie flat
02:08 Book dimensions
02:20 Page layout and dimensions
03:28 The font in the text
04:15 The font in the notes
04:34 Paper qualities (thickness, texture, opacity, reflectivity)
05:07 A glance at a book introduction
05:40 How to use the footnotes to identify which book of the Bible you are in
07:14 The bibliography
07:37 The copyright page
07:53 The table of contents
08:22 The introduction
08:34 How to read this book
08:46 Genesis chapter one
08:56 What square brackets mean
09:52 What italic type means
10:51 A list of scrolls used in the translation of Genesis chapter one
11:10 An in-text note marked with a gray square
11:59 Genesis 1.9, a textual variant: A Dead Sea Scroll that agrees with the Septuagint, but not with the Masoretic Text
13:11 What a gray triangle means
14:17 A closer look at “How to Read This Book”
15:57 The Dead Sea Scrolls naming convention
17:05 What MT, SP, and LXX mean
17:54 A partial list of places where the Dead Sea Scrolls agree with the Septuagint and disagree with the Masoretic Text, taken from “Notes on the Septuagint” by R. Grant Jones
www.areopage.net/PDF/LXXNotes...
20:12 Highlights from the introduction
20:19 A table showing Jewish, Protestant, and Roman Catholic Old Testament books and the way those books are ordered
20:52 Ancient (B.C.) fragments of the Septuagint identified
21:32 An illustration showing how the Masoretic differs from the pre-Masoretic Text
22:15 The number of scrolls that include material from the Bible
22:51 A brief essay on 1 Enoch and the Dead Sea Scrolls
23:12 A photo of a Dead Sea Scroll fragment from 1 Enoch - the cover from the Nickelsburg and VanderKam translation
24:32 The Dead Sea Scrolls and “the Son of Man”
25:19 The introduction to the book of Daniel
28:00 Conclusion
26 июл 2024
