Dead Sea Scrolls and German Scholarship

This booklet considers both pre- and post-1989 German-speaking scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It shows that study of the Scrolls was part of the German tradition of the study of antiquity. It stresses German contributions to the provision of study resources, the techniques of manuscript reconstruction, the analysis of the scrolls in relation to the New Testament and Early Judaism, as well as the popularization of scholarship.