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Since the initial discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls over 45 years ago, controversy has attended them and the people and circumstances surrounding their discovery and publication. The works of Schiffman and Silberman exemplify the controversy. While there is some common ground, there is also divergence. Schiffman considers the documents to have been completed by the end of the first century B.C.E. and to be primarily religious in nature. He sees the Qumran community as a distinctively Jewish group at odds with the religious establishment in Jerusalem. Silberman, on the other hand, presents the scrolls as political do...Log In or Sign Up to Read More