Mobile Ed: Dead Sea Scrolls Collection
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Get an in-depth look at the world of the Dead Sea Scrolls with this Mobile Ed Bundle by Dr. Andrew Perrin and Dr. Craig Evans. You’ll learn about their discovery and the controversies surrounding their ownership and publication. You’ll gain insight into the Qumran community as Dr. Perrin provides historical background to help you understand how beliefs and practices of the group that wrote and preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls compares to other Jewish groups from the time of Jesus. You’ll see what insight the Scrolls can provide on the accuracy of the text of the Old Testament, the prevalence of other ancient Jewish writings, and the Second Temple context of early Christianity.
Dr. Craig Evans combines his extensive knowledge of ancient manuscripts and New Testament studies to survey the contents, context, and influence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He details the history of the scrolls and the Essenes, and shows how the scrolls affect our understanding of Jesus, John the Baptist, and the early church.
- Title: Dead Sea Scrolls Collection
- Instructors: Andrew Perrin and Craig A. Evans
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2019-2021
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 2
- Video Hours: 17
Andrew B. Perrin is Associate Vice-President Research at Athabasca University and former Canada Research Chair in Religious Identities of Ancient Judaism and Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University. He received his PhD from McMaster University. His monograph The Dynamics of Dream-Vision Revelation in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls received the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise from the University of Heidelberg, and his forthcoming Journal of Theological Studies article that redefines Daniel traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls was awarded the 2019 David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Creativity in Hebrew Bible Scholarship from the Society of Biblical Literature. Perrin is co-editor of Reading the Bible in Ancient Traditions and Modern Editions and Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel. His research on the Dead Sea Scrolls has been published in popular venues, such as Bible Study Magazine and Biblical Archaeology Review, as well as academic journals, including Dead Sea Discoveries, Journal of Biblical Literature, and Vetus Testamentum.
Craig A. Evans is the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament and director of the graduate program at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He has written extensively on the historical Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era. His books include Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies, a commentary on Mark in the Word Biblical Commentary, Jesus and the Ossuaries, and Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies. He has recently served on the advisory board of the Gospel of Judas for National Geographic Society and has appeared frequently as an expert commentator on network television programs such as Dateline, and in various documentaries on the BBC, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.