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Dead Sea Scrolls: Questions & Responses for Latter-day Saints

Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research & Mormon Studies (FARMS), 2000, 6x9" softbound, 110 pages.

Since their initial discovery in 1947, the ancient scrolls found in caves near the Dead Sea have stirred public curiosity. For Latter-day Saints, whose scriptural tradition speaks of sacred records to come forth in the last days, the Dead Sea Scrolls naturally give rise to questions such as:

Are there references to Christ or Christianity in the scrolls? Do the scrolls contain scripture missing from the Bible? Is the plan of salvation attested in the scrolls?
Do the scrolls refer to Joseph Smith or other latter-day figures?

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Questions and Responses for Latter-day Saints succinctly deals with these and other questions on topics of particular interest to LDS readers. These topics are based on actual questions that Latter-day Saints have asked the authors as they have taught classes at Brigham Young University, shared their research at professional symposia, and spoken in other settings.

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Stephen D. Ricks earned a doctorate in Near Eastern Religions from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Graduate Theological Union, following studies at Brigham Young University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is professor of Hebrew and cognate learning in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University.

Ricks has served as president of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies and as chairman of the FARMS board, as the founding editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, and as associate dean of general education and honors at BYU.

His publications include Lexicon of Inscriptional Qatabanian, published by the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome; Western Language Literature on Pre-Islamic Central Arabia: An Annotated Bibliography, published by the American Institute of Islamic Studies in Denver, Colorado; The Apocalypse in Germany, a translation of Klaus Vondung's Die Apokalypse in Deutschland, published by the University of Missouri Press; and (edited with Donald W. Parry) New Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls, published by E. J. Brill in Leiden, The Netherlands. He has written widely on topics relating to ancient Israelite religion, the temple in antiquity, and the Book of Mormon.

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