The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament
George J. Brooke
Fortress Press
Brooke illuminates the first-century world shared by the  Qumran community and the writers of the New  Testament.    The Dead Sea Scrolls have provided Old Testament  scholars with an enormous wealth of data for textual  criticism as well as theology. But, as Brooke skillfully  demonstrates, New Testament scholars can use the Scrolls to  learn more about the linguistic, historical, religious, and  social contexts of Palestine in the first century.    A wide range of topics and themes is discussed, including  Matthew’s Beatitudes, the lost song of Miriam, Levi and  the Levites, women’s authority, and the use of scripture in  the parable of the vineyard.