Sepolti per quasi 2.000 anni nelle grotte vicino al Mar Morto, nel 1947 vennero casualmente scoperti alcuni manoscritti chiusi in giare di terracotta. Da allora studiosi e ricercatori indagano su questi testi che hanno un'importanza fondamentale per capire la storia delle origini del Cristianesimo. (fonte: retro di copertina)

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Eisenman-Les-Manuscrits-de-la-mer-Morte-reveles/2...

> Aux éd. Fayard, une somme sur Les manuscrits de la mer Morte révélés de Robert Eisenman et Michaël Wise, qui explique les guerres pichrocholines entre spécialistes de bords différents qui ont retardé la publication d’une grande partie des manuscrits de la grotte 4, la plus riche, à des fins politico-religieuses : cinquante des textes les plus importants se trouvent enfin traduits dans ce livre.
—Nouvelles Clés, été 1995

A complete translation. 50 key documents. Gave to the church library.
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A translation of the dead sea scrolls, which suffers from a good deal of pedantry. It's interesting for what you can learn about religious history, but overall, many of the scrolls appear to be basically similar to the Hebrew Bible, with differences in wording in places from the books. The tedium of the Biblical begats is in this spot taken over by the tedium of the calendric scrolls, with endless lists of days and dates to explicate the complicated calendar the authors of the scroll were using, and also correlating it with the different calendar being used by other Jewish communities. Overall, it's interesting on the margins, and the authors included a transliteration of the scrolls, so readers could check their translations themselves (for those readers who can read Hebrew and/or Aramaic). It does raise the question of whether Pascal was right in saying there is nothing to lose in believing, since an awful lot of people spent an awful lot of hours on this, which really didn't do anything to improve the human condition at all (and the people I count here are not only the many modern researchers, but the ancient scribes who created and preserved these writings). Overall, not a bad read, but I wouldn't recommend it for casual readers. The jargon flows too freely for that. ( )

Now that all of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been published, this book is pretty much pointless. And Eisenman's theories are a stretch, to say the least. ( )