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מגילות קומראן׃ מבואות ומחקרים (English Title: The Qumran Scrolls and Their World) . Edited by Menahem Kister. (The Ancient Literature of Eretz Israel and Its World: Between Bible and Mishnah: The David and Jemima Jeselsohn Library). Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2009. 2 Volumes. Pp. x, 696. Cloth with dust jacket. US$49.00. ISBN 978-965-217-291-4. In Hebrew.

מגילות קומראן׃ מבואות ומחקרים (English Title: The Qumran Scrolls and Their World) . Edited by... These two volumes, edited by Menahem Kister, current director of the Orion Center for Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature at the Hebrew University, bring together a wealth of mostly Israeli scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Alongside Elisha Qimron’s fully reworked editions of the Qumran texts, published in the same series by Yad Ben-Zvi, these volumes comprise a landmark collection dedicated to the Scrolls approximately sixty years after their discovery.1 Since these books are written in Modern Hebrew—a factor that may make them less accessible to some readers—I thought it best to use the limited space of this review to provide brief (and by necessity oversimplified) summaries of each article. Consequently, I will keep my own evaluative comments to a bare minimum. I should say at the outset that, although the volumes do include new points of insight, their chief aim is to provide a summative snapshot of the current state of (primarily Israeli) research for interested non-specialists, such as university students and scholars from different fields, to “introduce to the reader the world of the Qumran texts.” The books contain a preponderance of essays dealing with the Jewish [perhaps Essene] sect responsible for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of Judaism Brill

מגילות קומראן׃ מבואות ומחקרים (English Title: The Qumran Scrolls and Their World) . Edited by Menahem Kister. (The Ancient Literature of Eretz Israel and Its World: Between Bible and Mishnah: The David and Jemima Jeselsohn Library). Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2009. 2 Volumes. Pp. x, 696. Cloth with dust jacket. US$49.00. ISBN 978-965-217-291-4. In Hebrew.

Journal for the Study of Judaism , Volume 44 (3): 413 – Jan 1, 2013

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Review of Books
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0047-2212
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1570-0631
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10.1163/15700631-12340016
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These two volumes, edited by Menahem Kister, current director of the Orion Center for Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature at the Hebrew University, bring together a wealth of mostly Israeli scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Alongside Elisha Qimron’s fully reworked editions of the Qumran texts, published in the same series by Yad Ben-Zvi, these volumes comprise a landmark collection dedicated to the Scrolls approximately sixty years after their discovery.1 Since these books are written in Modern Hebrew—a factor that may make them less accessible to some readers—I thought it best to use the limited space of this review to provide brief (and by necessity oversimplified) summaries of each article. Consequently, I will keep my own evaluative comments to a bare minimum. I should say at the outset that, although the volumes do include new points of insight, their chief aim is to provide a summative snapshot of the current state of (primarily Israeli) research for interested non-specialists, such as university students and scholars from different fields, to “introduce to the reader the world of the Qumran texts.” The books contain a preponderance of essays dealing with the Jewish [perhaps Essene] sect responsible for

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Published: Jan 1, 2013

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