Product Description: The SCM Core Text The Bible and Literature explores the crossover between attempts to read the Bible as literature and to read the Bible in literature. It seeks to assess what form a truly inter-disciplinary approach to the reading of the Bible would have to take, taking into consideration the background knowledge, preconceptions and theories of reading which scholars from each discipline, literary and biblical studies, bring to literary and biblical texts...read more

What is the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls? What do we know about the community that possessed them? This collection of essays integrates the latest findings about the scrolls into the existing knowledge of the period. International contributors include E.P Sanders, Eugene Ulrich, George Brook and John J. Collins.