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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
Journal for the Study of Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2013
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