The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated The Qumran Texts in English

Florentino Garcà Âa Martà Ânez; Wilfred G.E. Watson (translator)

ISBN 10: 0802841937 / ISBN 13: 9780802841933

Published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1996

About this Item

This English translation originally published 1994. This is the second English edition "with corrections and additions." "Especially helpful is the fact that the line numbers are specified in the text so that the reader knows exactly where the words are found." A solid copy with tight binding and square, uncreased spine. No marks to text. Medium wear to cover, including a 5" crease on the front cover. Bookstore rubber-stamping with inked notations on flyleaf. Small smudge on one page. Faint smudging fore-edge. Label on back cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated The Qumran Texts in English
• Publisher: E.J. Brill, Leiden
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802841937
• ISBN 13: 9780802841933
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: Second edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

One of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along with an introduction to the history of the discovery and publication of each manuscript and the background necessary for placing each manuscript in its actual historical context.

About the Author

Florentino Garcia Martinez is a professor emeritus in the Department of Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven ( Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). He has served as the head of the Qumran Institute at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.