Books in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series

Originally published 1962, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity. A companion volume contains the text found in the original one-volume publication.

This volume contains a collection of previously unknown compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran. The documents include mysteries, several meditations on creation, an admonitory parable, work concerning divine providence, ways of righteousness, and a number of small sapiential texts.

The Wadi ed-Daliyeh seal impressions are clay sealings originally affixed to the Samaria Papyri (legal documents in the Aramaic language drawn up in the city of Samaria and dating from the mid-4th century BC). This volume presents a catalogue and analysis of the legible sealings and two gold rings.

The volume contains a collection of compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran, written during the Second Temple Period and linked to the Hebrew Bible through text, characters, themes or genre. Some were completely unknown before their discovery here. All the documents greatly enhance our understanding of biblial interpretation at this period.

This volume, complete with translation, commentary, and plates, concerns one of the most important documents found at Qumran: a letter from one of the leaders of the Dead Sea sect to one of the leaders of Israel. It sheds light both on the ritual practices of the Qumran community and on the Hebrew language.

This volume contains first and second century CE documents in Aramaic and Greek said to come from Nahal Se'elim and now generally held to come from Nahal Hever (the venue of the Babatha Archive and the Bar Kokhba documents). They reveal legal, social, and linguistic aspects of the life of Jews in the Roman provinces of Judaea and Arabia.

A critical edition of one of the most important scrolls found in Qumran Cave 1. It is based on the reconstructive work on the scroll by the late Professor Hartmut Stegemann. This scroll contains a collection of psalms addressed to God, in which the author(s) give thanks to God for deliverance, salvation, knowledge and divine mercy.

This scholarly edition contains compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran written during the Second Temple period, which are linked to the Hebrew Bible through text, characters, themes or genre. Among the texts published here, Tobit was previously known from the Apocrypha while the remaining 14 texts were hitherto unknown.

Volume XXXVII contains the editio princeps of the second group of Aramaic texts (4Q550-583) from Cave 4 which were originally assigned to Pere Jean Starcky. They are primarily parabiblical and pseudepigraphical compositions reflecting the interest in biblical themes characteristic of Second Temple Judaism. The commentary is in French.

Composed at the end of the editorial process, this provides a general overview of and introduction to the thirty eight volumes of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series and includes several indexes to the whole series.

Volume XXXVIII presents texts from several sites in the Judaean Desert other than Qumran, including Jericho. The documents are mainly Aramaic and Greek documentary papyri, together with several literary texts from the Hebrew Bible.

Volume XXXI contains the editio princeps of the first group of Aramaic texts (4Q529-549) from Cave 4 which were originally assigned to Pere Jean Starcky. They are primarily parabiblical and pseudepigraphical compositions reflecting the interest in biblical themes characteristic of Second Temple Judaism. The commentary is in French.

This volume includes previously unknown texts from Qumran Cave 4 (which did not fit into previous volumes of DJD, which were arranged by literary genre) and some literary and documentary texts from sites near Qumran.

This volume presents the long-awaited edition of the Cave 4 manuscripts of Serekh Ha-Yahad or The Rule of the Community, in which the Essenes detailed the guidelines for membership in their community. It is extremely important for understanding the nature, practice, and ideology of the Qumran covenanters.

This volume contains complete editions of the remainder of the Qumran Cave 11 manuscripts which include biblical scrolls such as Ezekiel and Psalms, and a collection of important extra-biblical texts such as Jubilees, Berakoth and Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, and Melchizedek and Hymns.

DJD XXXII presents the first full critical edition of 1QIsaa (the Great Isaiah Scroll) and 1QIsab in the style of the DJD series. Part 1 contains the photographic plates (1QIsaa in colour) with the transcriptions on facing pages for easy comparison. Part II presents the introductions, notes, and the catalogue of variants.

Originally published 1962, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity. A companion volume contains the plates found in the original one-volume publication.

Originally published 1961, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity. A companion volume contains the plates found in the original one-volume publication.

This volume continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains forty-two manuscripts of the Writings, or Wisdom Books, from Psalms to Chronicles, antedating previous Hebrew manuscripts by a millennium. The scrolls are valuable witnesses to the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical text and have been used for recent revised translations of the Bible

This scholarly edition continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains 33 manuscripts of the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Minor Prophets, antedating previous Hebrew texts by a millennium.

This volume contains a collection of Jewish works composed during the intertestamental period linked to biblical texts through characters, themes, or genre. Some of these were known previously as part of the Pseudepigrapha, while others were not previously known.

This volume inaugurates the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls in the Jewish script from Qumran Cave 4. It contains 26 Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible from Genesis to Numbers, antedating previous texts by 1,000 years.

This volume is the first in the series to present a long Greek text (large sections of the minor prophets). The version in the scroll represents an early revision of the Septuagint towards a closer correspondence with the Hebrew text of the Bible. An introduction, notes and criticism are included.

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Volume VII. Qumran Grotte 4: III

Originally published in 1968, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.

Originally published in 1955, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.

DJD XXXII presents the first full critical edition of 1QIsaa (the Great Isaiah Scroll) and 1QIsab in the style of the DJD series. Part 1 contains the photographic plates (1QIsaa in colour) with the transcriptions on facing pages for easy comparison. Part II presents the introductions, notes, and the catalogue of variants.

This volume inaugurates the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from the main collection discovered in a cave at Qumran. It contains six biblical manuscripts written in the ancient palaeo-Hebrew script, four Septuagint manuscripts and five hitherto unknown compositions.