Les manuscrits de la Mer Morte

At the beginning of 1947 in the Judean desert, Mohammed ed-Dib, a young Bedouin herdsman looking for one of his a sheep, discovered, on the banks of the Dead Sea, a cave containing rolls of leather wrapped in a linen cloth and placed in enclosed clay jars. The numerous archaeological searches that followed this event enabled the identification of eleven caves containing approximately 800 manuscripts in vary states of repair, copies of biblical books, commentaries on passages of the Old Testament, compendiums of regulations... This work tells the story of these searches and reveals their result and, on the basis of archaeological discoveries, describes the community of Qumran which amassed this library. A book written by a renown historian and archaeologist who took part in the Qumran excavation. TABLE OF CONTENTS• The discovery of the establishment of Qumran• The composition of the library of Qumran• The organisation of the Community of Qumran• The rites and beliefs of the Community of Qumran• The Righteous Master• The Community of Qumran and the Jewish factions 

La découverte de l'établissement de Qumrân

• La composition de la bibliothèque de Qumrân

• L'organisation de la Communauté de Qumrân

• Les rites et les croyances de la Communauté de Qumrân

• Le Maître de justice

• La Communauté de Qumrân et les partis juifs