The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

by Donald W. Parry (Editor), Emanuel Tov (Editor)

The purpose of The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader , is "to enhance the research facilities of the individual texts within their respective genres. The nature of the Dead Sea Scrolls publication project was such that texts belonging to the same literary genre were published in different volumes in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert ( DJD ) series, although those from cave 4 were often published by subject. The dispersion of these texts in several different volumes complicated their analysis, a problem that is now overcome in DSSR .
This second and revised edition of the DSSR forms an updated and expanded publication, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition, as
- DSSR II Replaces Preliminary Editions of DSSR I with fine-tuned, published editions.
- DSSR II Presents Improved or Revised Texts
- DSSR II Features Texts Not Published in DSSR I.
- DSSR II Reassembles Segmented Texts.
- DSSR II Deletes Extremely Fragmentary Texts.
- DSSR II Updates Names of Compositions.
- Quotations in Pesharim and Commentaries.
- Indecipherable Words/Single Letters.

The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader , Volumes 1-2, 2nd ed., rev. and exp. (ed. Donald W. Parry and Emanuel Tov in association with Geraldine I. Clements; Brill, 2014) was published with an Index, but that Index did not contain any references to the page numbers. These are now provided in the Revised Index edited by Sister Raghida Obeid, OLM, The Lebanese Maronite Order, Lebanon and Rome. The document can be found in the 'Downloads' tab.

2218 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2013

About the author

Donald W. Parry, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls at Brigham Young University, is married to Camille Mills, from Las Vegas, Nevada; they have six children. He has served as a member of the International Team of Translators of the Dead Sea Scrolls since 1994. He has authored or edited thirty-three books, ten of which pertain to the scrolls and five deal with the writings of Isaiah. Parry has also published articles in journals, festschrifts, conference proceedings, and encyclopedias. He is also a member of several other professional organizations, including the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Groningen, The Netherlands, Society for Biblical Literature, Atlanta, Georgia, and the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Madison, Wisconsin. Parry presently serves as a member of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation Board of Trustees.