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Uniform Title Dead Sea scrolls. English.
Title The Dead Sea scrolls translated : the Qumran texts in English / Florentino Garcia Martinez ; Wilfred G.E. Watson, translator
Edition English edition (with corrected and additions)
Published Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994

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Description lxvii, 513 pages ; 25 cm
Contents The Dead Sea Scrolls -- History of discovery and publication -- 1947-1956: The First Manuscripts -- 1949-1955: Excavation and publication of Cave 1 -- 1951-1962: Excavation of Khirbet Qumran and the 'Small Caves' -- 1952: Cave 4 -- 1956-1977: Cave 11 -- The dispute over authenticity and antiquity -- A sectarian library -- Identity and origins of the Qumran Community -- History of the Qumran Community -- Further reading -- Rules. 1. The Rule of the Community. 2. The Damascus Document. 3. Fragments of other Rules -- Halakhic Texts. 1. Halakhic Letter (4QMMT). 2. Other halakhic texts -- Literature with Eschatological Content. 1. The War Scroll. 2. The Rule of the Congregation. 3. Description of the New Jerusalem. 4. Other texts -- Exegetical Literature. 1. Targums. 2. The Temple Scroll. 3. Pesharim. 4. Other texts -- Para-Biblical Literature. 1. Paraphrase of the Pentateuch. 2. Genesis Apocryphon. 3. Book of Jubilees. 4. Books of Enoch. 5. The Book of Giants. 6. Book of Noah. 7. Books of the Patriarchs. 8. Pseudo-Moses. 9. Pseudo-Joshua. 10. Pseudo-Samuel. 11. Pseudo-Jeremiah. 12. Pseudo-Ezekiel. 13. Pseudo-Daniel. 14. Aramaic Proto-Esther. 15. Tobit in Aramaic and Hebrew -- Poetic Texts. 1. Apocryphal psalms. 2. The Hymns. 3. Hymns against demons. 4. Wisdom poems. 5. Other compositions -- Liturgical Texts. 1. Daily prayers. 2. Festival Prayers. 3. Words of the Luminaries. 4. Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice. 5. Blessings and curses. 6. Other texts -- Astronomical Texts, Calendars and Horoscopes. 1. Astronomical Enoch. 2. Calendars and priestly rotas. 3. Horoscopes -- The Copper Scroll -- List of Manuscripts from Qumran
Analysis Bible. O.T - Criticism, Textual
Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Scrolls - Translations into English
Dead Sea scrolls - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Qumran community
Notes Translation (with corrections and additions) of the Spanish collection: Textos de Qumran
Bibliography List of the manuscripts from Qumran: pages 466-513
Notes Translation (with corrections and additions) of the Spanish collection: Textos de Qumran
SUBJECT Dead Sea scrolls. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79071139
Dead Sea scrolls http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79071139 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004866
Author García Martínez, Florentino.
Watson, Wilfred G. E.
LC no. 94017429
ISBN 9004100482 (paperback)
9004100881 (cloth)
Other Titles Dead Sea scrolls. English
OTHER TI Dead Sea scrolls. English. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003012836