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Published by Oxford University Press, Great Britain, 1962
Seller: Henry Stachyra, Bookseller, Stillwater, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xx, 387pp. Ex-library. No dust-jacket. Bound in original, dark blue cloth, with generally bright gilt lettering to spine. Volume slightly cocked, though this isn't offensive. Several minor dings to extremities of volume, with minor wear to covers. Only a touch of soiling to edges of pages. Bookseller label to front paste-down. Text clean. Binding sound. Overall, a good, clean, sound copy.
Published by Jerusalem, "hekhal Ha-Sefer", 1961
Seller: Dan Wyman Books, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. (FT) Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. 239 pages. Ill. Port. Facsim. 25 cm. In Hebrew with added English title and summaries. Series: Pirsume "Hekhal ha-sefer. " Title translates to English as, "Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls in Memory of E. L. Sukenik. " "Sukenik (1889-1953) was an Israel archaeologist who excavated a number of synagogues and Jewish tombs in the vicinity of Jerusalem, the latter containing remains which he claimed were evidence of early Christianity, as well as Chalcolithic remains in Haderah, including a tomb, and a Bronze Age site at Tell Jarisha. In 1947 Sukenik was instrumental in acquiring part of the *Dead Sea Scrolls - whose importance he immediately recognized - and he devoted the rest of his life to their study. " (EJ) CONTENTS: Address on the occasion of his receiving the Bublik Prize by Prof. E. L. Suzenik; The Qumran War Scroll and the date of its composition by M. H. Segal; The War Scroll-- its time and authors by J. M. Grintz; The literary structure of the War Scroll by C. Rabin; The plant eternal and the people of divine deliverance by J. Licht; The calendar reckoning of the sect from the Judaean desert by S. Talmon; The palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls and related documents by N. Avigad; Remnants of a Hebrew dialect in 1QIsa by D. S. Loewninger; The author of Genesis Apocryphon knew the book of Esther by J. Finkel; Damascus Document VII, 9-21 by H. Kosmala; The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Epistle to the Hebrews by Y. Yadin; The Baptism of John and the Dead Sea Sect by D. Flusser. SUBJECTS: Sukenik, Eleazar Lipa, 1889-1953. Dead Sea scrolls. Includes bibliographical footnotes. Very good condition in good jacket. (FEST-1-84).