Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XII. Qumran Cave 4: VII

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XII. Qumran Cave 4: VII

Author: Eugene Ulrich

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780198263654

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This volume inaugurates the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls written in the Jewish (or `square') script that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains twenty-six manuscripts of the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. These Hebrew texts antedate by a millenium what had previously been considered the earliest surviving biblical manuscripts in the original language. They document a pluriformity acceptable in the ancient biblical textual tradition that formed the basis for the Samaritan Pentateuch and helps to illumine the historical and theological relationship between the Jews and the Samaritans. Superior textual variants from these manuscripts have been adopted in recent revised translations of the Bible.


The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English

Author: Geza Vermes

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-06-24

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 0141901934

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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism and the origins of Christianity. These extraordinary manuscripts appear to have been hidden in the caves at Quumran by members of the Essene community, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Jesus. Some sixty years after the Scrolls' first discovery, this revised and much expanded edition of The Dead Sea Scrolls in English crowns a lifetime of research by the great Qumran scholar Geza Vermes. As well as superb translations of all non-biblical texts sufficiently well preserved to be rendered into English, there are also a number of previously unpublished texts, and a new preface. Since its first publication in 1962, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English has established itself as the standard English translation of the non-Biblical Qumran Scrolls and as giving an astonishing insight to the organization, customs, history and beliefs of the community responsible for them. This edition will contain new material, together with extensive new introductory material and notes.


Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XIX. Qumran Cave 4: XIV

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XIX. Qumran Cave 4: XIV

Author: Magen Broshi

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780198263890

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This definitive scholarly edition contains compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran written during the Second Temple period, which are linked to the Hebrew Bible through text, characters, themes or genre. Among the texts published here, Tobit was previously known from the Apocrypha while the remaining fourteen texts were hitherto unknown. They enhance our understanding of biblical interpretation during the period.


The Texts from the Judaean Desert

The Texts from the Judaean Desert

Author: Martin G. Abegg

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780199249244

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Composed at the end of the editorial process, this provides a general overview of and introduction to the thirty eight volumes of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series and includes several indexes to the whole series.


Qumran Cave 1

Qumran Cave 1

Author: D. Barthélemy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780198263012

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Originally published in 1955, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.


The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years, Volume 1

The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years, Volume 1

Author: James C VanderKam

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998-03-16

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 900467716X

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The Brill Jubilee volumes are being prepared to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first scroll discoveries in Qumran Cave I. They will contain a comprehensive set of cutting-edge articles on topics that are archeological, historical, literary, sociological, or theological in character. The papers are being written by an international group of scholars who are actively engaged in the scrolls research today and are able to incorporate all of the Qumran evidence into their studies.


The Ancient Library of Qumran

The Ancient Library of Qumran

Author: Frank Moore Cross

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781451408089

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Since the first publication of this book in 1959 it has become a classic: It is a sober and objective account by a scholar who has taken a leading part in the editing and evaluation of the Qumran texts. The book opens with an account of the history of the finds, and each subsequent chapter deals with a single but major area of scroll research. Each records an attempt to achieve in a given area a synthesis, or at least a systematic interpretation, of the facts now available. Old and new, published and unpublished data are drawn upon. For this revised edition, the history of the finds has been updated to the present, and a final chapter has been added detailing some of the author's views of and reactions to recent discussions and publications not found in the earlier editions.