The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research

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The volume consists of 27 surveys of research into the Dead Sea Scrolls in the past 60 years, written by 26 authors. An innovation of the volume is that it covers Qumran scholarship in separate countries: the USA, Canada, Israel, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Italy and the Eastern bloc. Each essay also carries a detailed bibliography for the respective country. Biographies of all the major scholars active in the field are briefly given as well.

Your excessively specialized research library which focuses only on Scrolls studies will definitely want to pick up a copy.

It has to be said, though, that the editor is top notch-

Devorah Dimant, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew Univerity in Jerusalem, Professor (em.) for Ancient Jewish Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel. Has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. She has produced first editions of several Qumran scrolls in Qumran Cave 4.XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXX; Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2001)