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The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Short List of References

Secondary Sources

Cross, Frank Moore.
The ancient library of Qumran and modern Biblical studies. Revised edition. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1961. 260 p.; ill.
LC call number: BM175.Q6 C7 1961
LC control number: 61016247


The Dead Sea Scrolls: forty years of research. Edited by Devorah Dimant and Uriel Rappaport. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, c1992. viii, 370 p.; ill. (Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 0169-9962; v. 10)
LC call number: BM487.D44 1992
LC control number: 92018573

Chiefly in English; some articles in French.


The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Edited by G. Vermes. 3rd ed. London; New York: Penguin, 1987. xvi, 320 p.
LC call number: BM487.A3 1987
LC control number: 88175918

Includes bibliographical references (pp. 313-316) and index.


Fitzmyer, Joseph A.
The Dead Sea Scrolls: major publications and tools for study. Rev. ed. Atlanta: Scholars Press, c1990. xvi, 246 p. (Resources for biblical study ; no. 20)
LC call number: Z6371.D4 F58 1990
LC control number: 90041229


Fitzmyer, Joseph A.
Responses to 101 questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Paulist Press, 1992. xviii, 201 p.
LC call number: BM487.F55 1992
LC control number: 92021584

Includes bibliographical references (pp. 171-173) and indexes.


Flusser, David.
Judaism and the origins of Christianity. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, c1988. xxviii, 725 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
LC call number: BM487.F58 1988
LC control number: 89113650

Includes bibliographical references.


Qumran and the history of the Biblical text. Edited by Frank Moore Cross and Shemaryahu Talmon. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. 415 p.: ill.
LC call number: BM487.Q58
LC control number: 75012529


Scrolls from the Dead Sea: an exhibition of scrolls and archeological artifacts from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Edited by Ayala Sussmann and Ruth Peled. Washington, DC: Library of Congress in association with the Israel Antiquities Authority, 1993.
LC call number: BM487.S37 1993
LC control number: 93020476

Catalog issued in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Library of Congress, April 29 to August 1, 1993.


Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: a reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review. Edited by Hershel Shanks. New York: Random House, c1992. xxxviii, 336 p.; ill., maps.
LC call number: BM487.U49 1992 MRR Alcove, Hebraic Section Reference
LC control number: 91045727

Includes bibliographical references and index.


Vaux, Roland de, 1903-1971.
Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls. London: published for the British Academy by the Oxford
University Press, 1973. xv, 142 p.: ill., fold maps
LC call number: DS110.Q8 V313 1973
LC control number: 73174845

Revised edition in an English translation of L'archeologie et les Manuscrits de la Mer Morte.

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