Chapter 6 Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Destruction That Preserves

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 King Agamemnon’s Capital 11
6. Chapter 2 How Earthquakes Happen 32
7. Chapter 3 History, Myth, and the Reliability of the Written Record 65
8. Chapter 4 Clues to Earthquakes in the Archaeological Record 88
9. Chapter 5 Under the Rubble: Human Casualties of Earthquakes 141
10. Chapter 6 Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Destruction That Preserves 162
11. Chapter 7 Expanding the Earthquake Record in the Holy Land 186
12. Chapter 8 Earthquake Storms and the Catastrophic End of the Bronze Age 224
13. Chapter 9 Rumblings and Revolutions: Political Effects of Earthquakes 246
14. Chapter 10 Earthquakes and Societal Collapse 272
15. Glossary 279
16. References 289
17. Index 305