Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review
by Hershel Shanks
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679414487
- ISBN 13
- 9780679414483
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Random House, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition with number line 2-9 which per Random House convention indicates a First Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with light peach colored boards, black spine cloth, copper gilt decorative on front board and copper gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains 41 black & white illustrations and charts throughout. Dust jacket very good with light shelf & edge wear; no tears or chips; scratch to the plasticized coating on rear panel, vertical rubbing line on jacket front & back where spine cloth meets the board underneath. * From the jacket, ""the Dead Sea Scrolls are the most important and most exciting manuscript find of the twentieth century. Yet their significance remains inaccessible to most, veiled by mystery and scholarly occlusion. This volume, comprised of articles by the world's leading Dead Sea Scroll authorities, is the essential sourcebook for understanding the scrolls, and the controversies that rage around them. . . .""
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001198
- Title
- Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review
- Author
- Hershel Shanks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679414487
- ISBN 13
- 9780679414483
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Dead Sea Scrolls, Manuscripts
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Spirituality & Religion;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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