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  • Published: 16 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141197319
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 720
  • RRP: $32.00

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)




A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by the esteemed Biblical scholar

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism and the origins of Christianity. These extraordinary manuscripts appear to have been hidden in the caves at Quumran by members of the Essene community, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Jesus. Some sixty years after the Scrolls' first discovery, this revised and much expanded edition of The Dead Sea Scrolls in English crowns a lifetime of research by the great Qumran scholar Geza Vermes.

As well as superb translations of all non-biblical texts sufficiently well preserved to be rendered into English, there are also a number of previously unpublished texts, and a new preface.

Since its first publication in 1962, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English has established itself as the standard English translation of the non-Biblical Qumran Scrolls and as giving an astonishing insight to the organization, customs, history and beliefs of the community responsible for them. This seventh edition will contain new material, together with extensive new introductory material and notes.

  • Published: 16 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141197319
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 720
  • RRP: $32.00

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Praise for The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)

No translation of the Scrolls is either more readable or more authoritative than that of Vermes

John J. Collins, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Fascinating, not least because of Geza Vermes' wonderful introduction and translation

Justin Cartwright, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year