This is a vicious anti-Israel screed by professor at Tel Aviv University. You'll see lots of positive reviews at Amazon. None of them seem concerned that Sand dismisses Josephus to start and then quotes him constantly throughout. Sand sometimes seems to think the history in the Bible is made up and sometimes that it might be real but today's Jews are not descendants of the Biblical folks.
I had been reading this earlier but put it aside for a while to read Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls by Lawrence Schiffman whom I took a course with during the fall. Sand has a fairly substantial index, but Dead Sea Scrolls is apparently not something he thinks relevant to his topic.
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Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls is only available in Reference at the LA Library. However, they do have Schiffman´s Qumran and Jerusalem : Studies in the Dead Sea scrolls and the History of Judaism (2010) which I put on hold. They also have about ten other works of his.
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