Synopses & Reviews
Volume 1 of The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History, details the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls from their discovery in 1947 until 1960. It is based mainly on two new sources of information: first, a large number of interviews with the men who discovered and excavated the scrolls and who were the first scholars to decipher and edit them and second, several archives and personal letters and papers, most of which have never been published. The forthcoming second volume will bring the history of the scrolls up to the present.