Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls

by John J. Collins and Timothy H. Lim

Book Overview

In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the first discovery. That occasion was marked by a spate of major publications that attempted to sum up the state of scholarship at the end of the twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199663084
• ISBN13: 9780199663088
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 806 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.6" x 9.6"