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This volume continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains forty-two manuscripts of the Writings, or Wisdom Books, from Psalms to Chronicles, antedating previous Hebrew manuscripts by a millennium. The scrolls are valuable witnesses to the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical text and have been used for recent revised translations of the Bible

This volume presents unclassified and unidentified biblical and non-biblical fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and not yet published in the DJD series. This will enable scholars to track missing fragments which can be matched with larger compositions already known.

A critical edition of one of the most important scrolls found in Qumran Cave 1. It is based on the reconstructive work on the scroll by the late Professor Hartmut Stegemann. This scroll contains a collection of psalms addressed to God, in which the author(s) give thanks to God for deliverance, salvation, knowledge and divine mercy.

This scholarly edition contains compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran written during the Second Temple period, which are linked to the Hebrew Bible through text, characters, themes or genre. Among the texts published here, Tobit was previously known from the Apocrypha while the remaining 14 texts were hitherto unknown.

Volume XXXVII contains the editio princeps of the second group of Aramaic texts (4Q550-583) from Cave 4 which were originally assigned to Pere Jean Starcky. They are primarily parabiblical and pseudepigraphical compositions reflecting the interest in biblical themes characteristic of Second Temple Judaism. The commentary is in French.

Composed at the end of the editorial process, this provides a general overview of and introduction to the thirty eight volumes of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series and includes several indexes to the whole series.

The modern history of the three Samuel scrolls from Cave 4 at Qumran began in 1952 when they were discovered with the great mass of scrolls from Cave 4 in clandestine excavations by Bedouin. Twenty-seven additional fragments, parts of columns II and III of 4QSama, were found in the excavations of R de Vaux and G Lankester Harding.

Volume XXXVIII presents texts from several sites in the Judaean Desert other than Qumran, including Jericho. The documents are mainly Aramaic and Greek documentary papyri, together with several literary texts from the Hebrew Bible.

Volume XXXI contains the editio princeps of the first group of Aramaic texts (4Q529-549) from Cave 4 which were originally assigned to Pere Jean Starcky. They are primarily parabiblical and pseudepigraphical compositions reflecting the interest in biblical themes characteristic of Second Temple Judaism. The commentary is in French.

This volume includes previously unknown texts from Qumran Cave 4 (which did not fit into previous volumes of DJD, which were arranged by literary genre) and some literary and documentary texts from sites near Qumran.

This volume presents the long-awaited edition of the Cave 4 manuscripts of Serekh Ha-Yahad or The Rule of the Community, in which the Essenes detailed the guidelines for membership in their community. It is extremely important for understanding the nature, practice, and ideology of the Qumran covenanters.

This volume contains complete editions of the remainder of the Qumran Cave 11 manuscripts which include biblical scrolls such as Ezekiel and Psalms, and a collection of important extra-biblical texts such as Jubilees, Berakoth and Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, and Melchizedek and Hymns.

A critical text edition of the Hebrew manuscripts, 4Q521-8, and 49576-9, which were found in Cave 4 at Qumran, and originally allotted to Pere Jean Starcky. This is volume 25 in the DISCOVERIES IN THE JUDAEAN DESERT series and mainly comprises of parabiblical and pseudepigraphic compositions reflecting the interests of the Second Temple period.

Originally published 1962, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity. A companion volume contains the text found in the original one-volume publication.

Originally published 1962, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity. A companion volume contains the plates found in the original one-volume publication.

Originally published 1961, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity. A companion volume contains the plates found in the original one-volume publication.

This volume contains a collection of prayers, hymns, psalms, and liturgies from Cave 4 at Qumran. Among them, 4QNon-Canonical Psalms, 4Q "Blessings" and 4QApocryphal Psalm. These compositions reveal the community's understanding of heaven and earth and the tradition of worship through poetry.

This scholarly edition continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains 33 manuscripts of the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Minor Prophets, antedating previous Hebrew texts by a millennium.

This volume contains a collection of Jewish works composed during the intertestamental period linked to biblical texts through characters, themes, or genre. Some of these were known previously as part of the Pseudepigrapha, while others were not previously known.

This work presents all the known Qumran Cave 4 manuscripts of the Damascus Document on the basis of J.T. Milik's original transcriptions. These eight manuscripts antedate the two medieval Cairo Genizah texts by more than a millennium.

This scholarly edition continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains 24 manuscripts of the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges and Kings, antedating previous Hebrew texts by a millennium.

This volume inaugurates the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls in the Jewish script from Qumran Cave 4. It contains 26 Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible from Genesis to Numbers, antedating previous texts by 1,000 years.

This volume is the first in the series to present a long Greek text (large sections of the minor prophets). The version in the scroll represents an early revision of the Septuagint towards a closer correspondence with the Hebrew text of the Bible. An introduction, notes and criticism are included.

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Volume VII. Qumran Grotte 4: III

Originally published in 1968, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.

Originally published in 1955, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.

DJD XXXII presents the first full critical edition of 1QIsaa (the Great Isaiah Scroll) and 1QIsab in the style of the DJD series. Part 1 contains the photographic plates (1QIsaa in colour) with the transcriptions on facing pages for easy comparison. Part II presents the introductions, notes, and the catalogue of variants.

This volume inaugurates the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from the main collection discovered in a cave at Qumran. It contains six biblical manuscripts written in the ancient palaeo-Hebrew script, four Septuagint manuscripts and five hitherto unknown compositions.

DJD XXXII presents the first full critical edition of 1QIsaa (the Great Isaiah Scroll) and 1QIsab in the style of the DJD series. Part 1 contains the photographic plates (1QIsaa in colour) with the transcriptions on facing pages for easy comparison. Part II presents the introductions, notes, and the catalogue of variants.