For two thousand years, the world has read a Bible translated from manuscripts copied a thousand years after the time of Jesus.
Now, with this landmark volume, the doors are thrown open to an earlier world.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible presents the first-ever English translation of the biblical texts found at Qumran. These ancient manuscripts are a priceless link to the scriptures as they existed during the Second Temple period, offering a startlingly fresh perspective on the Old Testament that Jesus and the early rabbis would have known.
This groundbreaking work reveals a biblical text that is often different from the one we read today. The editors meticulously compare the scroll fragments to the traditional Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint, and the Samaritan Pentateuch, highlighting hundreds of fascinating variants—from single words that change a sentence's meaning to entire passages previously lost to history. For anyone interested in serious Bible study or the textual history of the Hebrew Bible, this is an essential and invaluable resource.
This translation unlocks a version of the Old Testament unlike any other, revealing: