Secrets of the Cave of Letters : rediscovering a Dead Sea mystery /

Secrets of the Cave of Letters : rediscovering a Dead Sea mystery /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freund, Richard A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2004.
Subjects:
Bar Kokhba, > -135.
Copper scroll.
Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Israel.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Judaea, Wilderness of.
Letters, Cave of the (Israel)
Israel > Antiquities.
Judaea, Wilderness of > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Secrets of the Cave of Letters
  • The origins of a cave
  • Bar Kokhba: the second coming of the Messiah?
  • The minimalists and the maximalists of archaeology and the Bar Kokhba Rebellion
  • Returning to the cave: the road from Bethsaida to the Dead Sea
  • The Copper Scroll and the Dead Sea caves
  • "The Cave of the Column" and the Cave of the Letters
  • X marks the spot: the rest of the story
  • A tale of two caves: Babatha and her-story
  • Future secrets of Dead Sea caves research.