DOC The Last of the Bush Pilots by Harmon Helmericks in History

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Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about the different uses of time-measurement in the Dead Sea Scrolls; the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Jewish texts. James C. VanderKam examines the pertinent texts; their sources and the different uses to which people put calendrical information in the Christian world. He argues that the scrolls indicate that a dispute about the correct calendar for dating festivals was one of the principal reasons for the separation of the authors of the scrolls from Jewish society.