Scholarly volumes on the Dead Sea Scrolls, full of indexes, footnotes, and technical jargon abound. However, in this volume, Pam Fox Kuhlken and David Noel Freedman provide an overview of the substance and significance of the Scrolls for the non-specialist. Kuhlken and Freedman’s work is well-informed and reliable while remaining charmingly candid, as they run an interrogatory gamut from the general, to the paranoid, to the somewhat cynical.
