The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated by Florentino Garcia Martinez

The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated by Florentino Garcia Martinez

One of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along with an introduction to the history of the discovery and publication of each manuscript and the background necessary for placing each manuscript in its actual historical context.

Florentino Garca Martnez is a world-renowned Qumran expert and the director of the Qumran Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is the editorial secretary of the Revue de Qumran and the Journal for the Study of Judaism, as well as a member of the International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Garca Martnez is the author of several books and essays about the Dead Sea Scrolls, including Qumran and Apocalyptic. Studies on the Qumran Aramaic Writings (Brill, 1992).