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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »

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KIER8, June 26, 2008 (view all comments by KIER8)
Thanks to the three scholarly authors the ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Dead Sea scrolls can now be understood by layman and clergy alike. Besides a general introduction to the scrolls, each scroll fragment is introduced, translated and commented on, all in crisp modern English. It includes a bibliography, index of manuscripts, and index of references.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780060692001

Subtitle:

A New Translation

With:

Abegg, Martin G., Jr.

With:

Cook, Edward

Publisher:

MacMillan

Subject:

Judaism - Sacred Writings

Subject:

Dead sea scrolls

Subject:

Christian literature, early

Copyright:

1996

Publication Date:

November 1996

Binding:

Trade Cloth

Language:

English

Pages:

513

Dimensions:

9.58x6.51x1.58 in. 2.10 lbs.