Description

Best-selling book on the Scrolls, updated to reflect current scholarship and recent debates

The premier Dead Sea Scrolls primer ever since its original publication in 1994, James VanderKams Dead Sea Scrolls Today won the Biblical Archaeology Societys Publication Award in 1995 for the Best Popular Book on Biblical Archaeology. In this expanded and updated edition the book will continue to illuminate the greatest archaeological find in modern times.

While retaining the format, style, and aims of the first edition, the second edition of The Dead Sea Scrolls Today takes into account the full publication of the texts from the caves and the post-1994 debates about the Qumran site, and it contains an additional section regarding information that the Scrolls provide about Second Temple Judaism and the groups prominent at the time. Further, VanderKam has enlarged the bibliographies throughout and changed the phrasing in many places. Finally, quotations of the Scrolls are from the fifth edition of Geza Vermess translation, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Penguin, 1997).

Author: James C. VanderKam
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 02/15/2010
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780802864352
Language: English