Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls.(Brief article)(Book review)

Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Baker Academic: Baker Bk. House. 2006. c.144p. ed. by John J. Collins & Craig A. Evans. index. ISBN 0.8010-2837-X [ISBN 978-0-8010-2837-3]. pap. $16.99. REL

What impact does the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls have on our understanding of early Christianity? What parallels can be found between these ancient writings and the New Testament? These are the kinds of questions that this scholarly eight-essay collection edited by Collins (Old Testament criticism & interpretation, Yale Divinity Sch.) and Evans (New Testament studies, Acadia Divinity Coll.; Jesus and His Contemporaries) attempts to answer. Two pieces address …