The texts are translated into English by Eugene Ulrich, one of the three general editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Peter Flint and Martin Abegg Jr., the directors of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. Commentary by the editors provides insight into the rich cultural and religious traditions behind the scrolls and the Bible itself. Anyone wishing to know exactly what is in these ancient scrolls now has in this volume a comprehensive translation of the evidence together with introductions and notes. Abegg, Flint, and Ulrich are to be commended for making this valuable contribution to the study and dissemination of the scrolls. Assembled and annotated by three first-class and topnotch specialists, this volume will be of inestimable value to everyone involved in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Congratulations are certainly in order.
Yet these texts are never included in the standard editions of the Scrolls, and have remained virtually inaccessible to the general public. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible fills a glaring gap in this regard. Here for the first time any reader can see at a glance how the readings from Qumran differ from other biblical texts. This will be an indispensible reference book for anyone interested in the history of the biblical text. This volume opens for the general reader the wealth of information for biblical studies to be culled from the Dead Sea Scrolls.