Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947, this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a 'sect' configured as marginal and isolated. Scholarly consensus has held that an Essene library was hidden ahea…
Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947, this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a 'sect' configured as marginal and isolated. Scholarly consensus has held that an Essene library was hidden ahea…
This volume contains forty-eight essays, presented by friends, colleagues and students from many countries, in honour of Florentino Garcia Martinez, director of the Groningen Qumran Institute, editor-in-chief of the "Journal for the Study of Judaism", and professor in Leuven. Th…
The Dead Sea scrolls reader
by Tov, Emanuel, Parry, Donald W.
fromDead Sea Scrolls Reader Ser
This edition presents for the first time "all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. Of these texts, some twenty were not previously published. The Hebrew-Aramaic texts in this edition are mainly based on the FARMS…
This collection "presents for the first time all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their literary genres, together with translations."
Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Psalms are found in no less than thirty-nine manuscripts. This groundbreaking volume presents the first comprehensive study of these scrolls, by making available a wealth of primary data and investigating the main issues that arise. The first part pro…
