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The End of days
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About 2,000 years ago, a group of people lived at Qumran, on the shore of the Dead Sea. Were they really the Essenes? And did the inhabitants write the more than 800 scrolls that were found there? ...
About 2,000 years ago, a group of people lived at Qumran, on the shore of the Dead Sea. Were they really the Essenes? And did the inhabitants write the more than 800 scrolls that were found there? In this program, Geza Vermes, of Oxford University; Lawrence Schiffman, of New York University; archaeologist Hanan Eshel; and other experts search for the answers. The startling counter-theories of Norman Golb and Yitzhar Hirschfeld are also considered. Close-ups of scroll and pottery fragments, footage of the dig at Qumran, models and drawings, and readings from the War Scroll, Temple Scroll, and Copper Scroll are included.
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- Creator
- ABC International
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2006], c2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (36 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn707970632
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on Aug. 02, 2006.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Apocalyptic Jewish Sects (3:48) -- Dead Sea Scrolls (5:00) -- Qumran Community (3:03) -- Priestly Infighting (2:27) -- Contents of the Temple Scroll (1:55) -- Identifying the Essenes (5:03) -- Ownership of the Scrolls (2:57) -- Copper Scroll (3:32) -- Another Theory of Qumran (3:20) -- Essenes: End of Days (3:02)