This is volume 1 of a two volume set, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition. This volume contains Texts concerned with Religious Law, Exegetical Texts and Parabiblical Texts. This second and revised edition of the Dead Sea Scollr Reader forms an updated and expanded publication, as follows: - 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.

This is volume 2 of a two volume set, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition. This volume contains Calendrical Texts and Sapiential Texts, Poetic and Liturgical Texts, Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts. This second and revised edition of the Dead Sea Scollr Reader forms an updated and expanded publication, as follows: - 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.

Three scrolls of the two books of Samuel were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran and their full publication has been long awaited. Ever since the 1950s, they have been at the forefront of scholarly investigation of the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. It is no exaggeration to say that the critical study and exegesis of the books of Samuel are no longer possible without these three scrolls in conjunction with that of the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint.