The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader: Calendrical Texts and Sapiential Texts, Poetic and Liturgical Texts, Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts: Vol 2

Parry, Donald W. (Editor)/ Tov, Emanuel (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9004264620 / ISBN 13: 9789004264625

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2013

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2nd revised expanded edition. 1133 pages. 9.75x6.00x1.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader: Calendrical Texts and Sapiential Texts, Poetic and Liturgical Texts, Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts: Vol 2
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004264620
• ISBN 13: 9789004264625
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 2 kilograms

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Synopsis

This is volume 2 of a two volume set, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition. This volume contains Calendrical Texts and Sapiential Texts, Poetic and Liturgical Texts, Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts.

The purpose of The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader is to enhance the research facilities of the individual texts within their respective genres. The nature of the Dead Sea Scrolls publication project was such that texts belonging to the same literary genre were published in different volumes in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) series, although those from cave 4 were often published by subject. The dispersion of these texts in several different volumes complicates their analysis, a problem that is now overcome in DSSR.
This second and revised edition of the DSSR forms an updated and expanded publication, as follows:
- DSSR II replaces preliminary editions of DSSR I with fine-tuned, published editions.
- DSSR II presents improved or revised texts.
- DSSR II features texts not published in DSSR I.
- DSSR II reassembles segmented texts.
- DSSR II deletes extremely fragmentary texts.
- DSSR II updates names of compositions.

The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Volumes 1–2, 2nd ed., rev. and exp. (ed. Donald W. Parry and Emanuel Tov in association with Geraldine I. Clements; Leiden: Brill, 2014) was published with an Index, but that Index did not contain any references to the page numbers. These are now provided in the Revised Index edited by Sister Raghida Obeid, OLM, The Lebanese Maronite Order, Lebanon and Rome.

About the Author

Donald W. Parry (1992), Professor of Hebrew Bible Studies, holds the Abraham O. Smoot Professorship at Brigham Young University. He is a member of the International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and author or (co)editor of a number of books on the scrolls and the Hebrew Bible.
Emanuel Tov, Ph.D. (1974) in Biblical Studies, Hebrew University, is J.L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Publications Project. He has published several books on textual criticism and on the Scrolls.