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Collins, Matthew A.Affiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2018-09-20
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For more than two-thirds of a century, the Dead Sea Scrolls have left a trail of intrigue and controversy in their wake. They have had an immeasurable impact, not only within the realms of academia and scholarship, but also upon the wider world, thanks to the widespread permeation of the scrolls into popular culture. On the one hand, they have provided scholars with a previously unimaginable wealth of textual material from the Second Temple period (shedding light, for instance, on the literature and social, political and religious world of the intertestamental era, as well as the transmission history of the scriptural texts), while on the other, the infamy resulting from years of restricted access and the consequent perceived secrecy surrounding their content has made them attractive to a fascinated public, for whom ‘the Dead Sea Scrolls’ constitutes ‘a cultural “buzz-phrase” signifying mystery, conspiracy, and ancient or hidden knowledge’ (Collins, 2011, p. 227). How have the Dead Sea Scrolls come to occupy this conceptual space in the public consciousness, and how might we begin to examine and explain the impact they continue to have upon both the academic and popular spheres?Citation
Collins, M.A., “Scholarly and Popular Reception”, in G.J. Brooke and C. Hempel (eds), T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (London: T&T Clark, 2018), 59–73.Publisher
Bloomsbury / T&T ClarkAdditional Links
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Bloomsbury Academic in T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls on 20th September 2018, available online: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tt-clark-companion-to-the-dead-sea-scrolls-9780567352057/ISBN
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