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The book by the lecturer of the Moscow Theological Academy, Candidate of Theology Priest Dimitry Yurevich covers a wide range of issues related to the study of the Dead Sea manuscripts.
The history of the discovery and research of Qumran manuscripts in the 20th century in Russia and abroad is described; the main hypotheses for the identification of the Qumran settlement and the origin of the scrolls are presented and critically analyzed.
The methods of interpreting the Holy Scriptures and features of the prophecies about Christ in the biblical manuscripts of the Dead Sea are considered.
On the material of a large number of non-biblical scrolls found in the area of Qumran and published in the West in 1991-92, it is shown which of the Old Testament biblical prophecies about Messines were reflected in Jewish literature of the period of the 3rd-1st centuries BC.