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Book review: Qumran Cave 1. ii : The Isaiah Scrolls: Part 1: Plates and Transcriptions; Part 2: Introduction, Commentary and Textual Variants , written by Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint

Book review: Qumran Cave 1. ii : The Isaiah Scrolls: Part 1: Plates and Transcriptions; Part 2:... Qumran Cave 1. ii : The Isaiah Scrolls: Part 1: Plates and Transcriptions; Part 2: Introduction, Commentary and Textual Variants . djd 32. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010. Hardcover. Pp. xviii + 149 + 83 plates / xviii + 260. £ 180.00. isbn 9780199566662/9780199566679. This volume in two parts completes the djd series, which now contains forty volumes. It therefore is appropriate that Part 1 is dedicated to Emanuel Tov “for his wise and gracious leadership of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series.” Although previous editions of both Isaiah scrolls from Cave 1 appeared, first of all in the 1950s, the present one offers the first critical edition of the two scrolls, including “the clearest photographs available of the first two biblical manuscripts discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947” (1.1). It reminds one of the saying, “the first will be the last,” although in this case being the last has the advantage of containing new features, such as the presentation of the plates and their transcriptions on facing pages. Moreover, the new volume is most important as it provides scholarship “a fresh transcription of their texts, introductions describing salient features, notes on paleographically difficult readings and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dead Sea Discoveries Brill

Book review: Qumran Cave 1. ii : The Isaiah Scrolls: Part 1: Plates and Transcriptions; Part 2: Introduction, Commentary and Textual Variants , written by Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint

Dead Sea Discoveries , Volume 22 (1): 113 – Apr 17, 2015

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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0929-0761
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1568-5179
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10.1163/15685179-12341337
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Qumran Cave 1. ii : The Isaiah Scrolls: Part 1: Plates and Transcriptions; Part 2: Introduction, Commentary and Textual Variants . djd 32. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010. Hardcover. Pp. xviii + 149 + 83 plates / xviii + 260. £ 180.00. isbn 9780199566662/9780199566679. This volume in two parts completes the djd series, which now contains forty volumes. It therefore is appropriate that Part 1 is dedicated to Emanuel Tov “for his wise and gracious leadership of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series.” Although previous editions of both Isaiah scrolls from Cave 1 appeared, first of all in the 1950s, the present one offers the first critical edition of the two scrolls, including “the clearest photographs available of the first two biblical manuscripts discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947” (1.1). It reminds one of the saying, “the first will be the last,” although in this case being the last has the advantage of containing new features, such as the presentation of the plates and their transcriptions on facing pages. Moreover, the new volume is most important as it provides scholarship “a fresh transcription of their texts, introductions describing salient features, notes on paleographically difficult readings and

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Published: Apr 17, 2015

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