The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English - Paperback

by Florentino Garcia Martinez (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.