"This volume contains a collection of previously unknown compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran. These compositions, written during the Second Temple period, use specialized terminology that allows them to be classified as sapiential (or instructional) literature. As such, they are part of the larger genre of wisdom literature, common in the ancient Near East, which includes other collections of sayings and instruction such as the Book of Pr ..."
"This volume continues the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains twenty-four Hebrew manuscripts of the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Kings. These texts antedate by a millennium those that had previously held the title of the earliest surviving Hebrew biblical manuscripts. They document a pluriformity acceptable in the ancient biblical textual tradition ..."
"Religious observance in all areas of life was an issue of major importance to the Qumran community. Several collections of laws or halakhot from Qumran bear witness to the parallel development of these laws with those that emerged within Rabbinic Judaism. This volume includes editions of several such compositions of which Tohorot is the largest. They provide major insight into the development of early halakha. This collection of halakhi ..."
"Composed at the end of the editorial process, this volume provides a general overview of and introduction to the thirty-eight volumes of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series published from 1951 onwards by Oxford University Press. It contains a general description of the series and its editorial principles, as well as different indexes: several lists of the texts found in the Judaean desert, a list of scribal notations, annotated ..."
"This volume in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series is composed of two sections, the first of which contains Aramaic papyri from Wadi Daliyeh written in Official Aramaic, the standard language of scribes in the Persian period. The papyri are all documentary and contain mainly deeds of slave sales. These documents aid us in understanding certain aspects of the society and the formulaic language of the fourth century BCE. The seco ..."
"In this long awaited edition Baumgarten 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 Geniza texts (CD) by more than a millennium and are indispensable for all future literary and historical studies on one of the major foundational works of the Qumran community. For the first time we have the paraen ..."
"This volume contains the texts from Cave 4 at Qumran which did not find a home in the earlier volumes of Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, which were arranged by literary genre. Although many compositions found at Qumran were works already known from the Bible, Apocrypha, or Pseudepigrapha, these texts were previously unknown and include some works composed by the Qumran community itself. In addition, the volume contains some literary ..."
"The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise the most important manuscript discovery in the field of biblical and early Jewish and Christian studies to have been made in this century. In 1947 the first manuscripts were discovered in a cave high above the shore of the Dead Sea in the vicinity of the ruins of Qumran. In subsequent years ten more caves were unearthed, and in the course of several archaeological campaigns complete scrolls and thousands of ..."
The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the Judaean Desert Companion Volume, . Inventory List of Photo by EmanuelTov, Stephen J. Pfann, S. A. Reed Hardcover, 134 Pages, Published 1997 by Brill Academic Pub Facsimile ISBN-13: 978-90-04-10434-1, ISBN: 90-04-10434-8
"The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise the most important manuscript discovery in the field of biblical and early Jewish and Christian studies to have been made in this century. In 1947 the first manuscripts were discovered in a cave high above the shore of the Dead Sea in the vicinity of the ruins of Qumran. In subsequent years ten more caves were unearthed, and in the course of several archaeological campaigns complete scrolls and thousands of ..."
"The "Companion Volume to the Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche Edition" is a remarkably valuable reference tool for research on the Scrolls. It provides the reader with a comprehensive list of all the texts discovered in the Judean Desert by number and name. The value of this book is enhanced by the inclusion of a chronological summary of the history of the discoveries and of Scrolls research and major publications. Another article gives k ..."
"The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise the most important manuscript discovery in the field of biblical and early Jewish studies to have been made this century. They were first discovered in 1947 in a cave above the Dead Sea near the ruins of Qumran, and in subsequent years in ten more caves in which approximately 800 manuscripts were finally brought to light. Further manuscript and epigraphs were also found in the desert of Judah. These documen ..."