Scrolls From the Dead Sea:
The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship

SELECTED READINGS

OFFICIAL SERIES

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert. 9 vols. to date. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955-.

Vol. I: Barthelemy, D., and J. T. Milik. Qumran Cave I. 1955.
Vol. II: Benoit, P., J. T. Milik, and R. de Vaux. Les Grottes de Murabba`at. 1961.
Vol. III: Baillet, M., J. T. Milik, and R. de Vaux. Les `Petites Grottes' de Qumran. 1962.
Vol. IV: Sanders, J. A. The Psalms Scroll of Qumran Cave II (IIQPs[superscript]a). 1965.
Vol. V: Allegro, J. M. Qumran Cave 4: I (4Q158-4Q186). 1968.
Vol. VI: De Vaux, R., and J. T. Milik. Qumran Grotte 4: II (Archeologie et 4Q128-4Q157). 1977.
Vol. VII: Baillet, M. Qumran Grotte 4: III (4Q482-4Q520). 1982.
Vol. VIII: Tov, E. The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXIIgr) (The Seiyal Collection I). 1990.
Vol. IX: Skehan, P., E. Ulrich, and J. Sanderson, with a contribution by P. J. Parsons. Qumran Cave 4: IV. Palaeo- Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts. 1992.

TRANSCRIPTIONS, REPRODUCTIONS, AND RECONSTRUCTIONS

The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche: A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the Judaean Desert.

Edited by E. Tov. Printed catalog by S. Reed. Israel Antiquities Authority. Leiden: E. J. Brill, forthcoming.

A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Prepared with an introduction and index by R. Eisenman and J. Robinson. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991. Introduction in English. Facsimiles primarily in Hebrew and Aramaic.

A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew and Aramaic Texts from Cave Four.

Reconstructed and edited by B. Wacholder and M. Abegg. 2 fascs. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991-92.

The Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness.

Edited by Y. Yadin. Translated by B. and C. Rabin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.

Scrolls from Qumran Cave I: The Great Isaiah Scroll, the Order of the Community, the Pesher to Habakkuk.

Photographs by J. Trever. Jerusalem: Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and the Shrine of the Book, 1972.

The Temple Scroll.

Edited by Y. Yadin. 3 vols. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1977-83. Translation of Megilat-ha-mikdash. Contents: v. 1. Introduction -- v. 2. Text and commentary -- v. 3. Plates and text; supplementary plates (2 v.).

GENERAL SOURCES

Baumgarten, J. Studies in Qumran Law.

Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, vol. 24. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977.

Cross, F. The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies.

The Haskell Lectures, 1956-57. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958.

--------. "The Development of the Jewish Scripts."

In The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of William Foxwell Albright. Edited by G. Wright. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961.

The Damascus Document Reconsidered.

Edited by M. Broshi. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Shrine of the Book, 1992.

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research.

Edited by D. Dimant and U. Rappaport. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.

De Vaux, R. Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973. English translation from the French.

Fitzmyer, J. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Major Publications and Tools for Study.

Society of Biblical Literature Resources for Biblical Study, no. 20. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

--------. Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

New York: Paulist Press, 1992.

Flusser, D. Judaism and the Origins of Christianity.

Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1988.

Golb, N. "The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Perspective."

The American Scholar 58 (Spring 1989):177-207.

Qumran and the History of the Biblical Text.

Edited by F. Cross and S. Talmon. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Schechter, S. Documents of Jewish Sectaries.

1910. Reprint. Library of Biblical Studies. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1970.

Schiffman, L. The Halakhah at Qumran.

Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, vol. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975.

Scrolls from the Dead Sea: An Exhibition of Scrolls and Archeological Artifacts from the Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Edited by A. Sussman and R. Peled. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress in association with the Israel Antiquities Authority, 1993. Catalog issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Library of Congress, Apr. 29-Aug. 1, 1993.

Talmon, S. The World of Qumran from Within: Collected Studies.

Jerusalem: Magnes Press; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989.

Tov, E. "The Unpublished Qumran Texts from Caves 4 and 11."

Journal of Jewish Studies 43 (Spring 1992):101-36.

Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review.

Edited by H. Shanks. New York: Random House, 1992.

Vermes, G. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective. Rev. ed.

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977.

--------. The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. 3rd ed.

London: Penguin, 1990.

Wieder, N. The Judean Scrolls and Karaism.

London: East and West Library, 1962.

Wilson, E. Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.

Yadin, Y. The Temple Scroll: The Hidden Law of the Dead Sea Sect.

New York: Random House, 1985.

-- Compiled by Michael W. Grunberger

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