The Dead Sea Scrolls

This volume presents English versions of Jewish texts hidden in caves near Qumran, written from about the third century BCE to the first century CE. The selection includes copies and variants of biblical books, community rules, a war scroll of the sons of light, hymns, biblical commentaries, and legal or liturgical pieces such as the Temple Scroll. The works describe a sectarian settlement's discipline, calendar, and hopes for the last days. There is no single authorial plot. The book is an anthology of ancient religious and communal writings, not a modern history of their twentieth-century discovery.

Bound in cream art vellum. Printed with a wrap-around image. 16 pages of plates in colour and black and white. Orange slipcase. Speckled cream endpapers.