Penguin Books, Summer 2012 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

iSBN 978-0-14-119731-9 $20.00 (NCR)
Religion/History/Archaeology 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 720 pp.
Rights: N00 Pub history: previous edition 978-0-14-044952-5
On sale: 6/26/2012
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A Cornerstone
“ No translation of the
Scrolls is either more
readable or more
authoritative than that
of Vermes.” —The Times Higher
Education Supplement (U.K.)
“ Fascinating, not least because
of Géza Vermes’s wonderful
introduction and translation.”
—The Daily Telegraph (U.K.)
Selection
A newly updated edition of the landmark
translation by one of our greatest
religious scholars
The Complete Dead Sea
Scrolls in English
Seventh Edition
Translated and Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by Géza Vermes
Since its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical expert Géza
Vermes’s translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls has established
itself as the authoritative standard. The original manuscripts,
discovered in the Judean Desert between 1947 and 1956,
completely transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible,
early Judaism, and the origin of Christianity. Now in its seventh
edition, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English has been
updated with a number of previously unpublished texts, as well as
extensive new introductory material and notes. Some sixty years
after the Scrolls’ discovery, this revised and expanded volume
crowns a lifetime of research by Vermes.
n Updated with additional material and a new preface
n Previous editions have sold more than half a million
copies worldwide
gézA veRMes was born in Hungary in 1924 and was the
first professor of Jewish studies at Oxford University. Now the director
of the Oxford Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Center for
Hebrew and Jewish Studies, he lives in London.
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