Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (DSS)

The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible provides a translation of the biblical manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is the first English translation of the earliest Biblical documents ever discovered. Up until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the cave of Qumran, the oldest Bible dated from the 11th century, A.D. Thus, the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible is over 1,000 years older than the previously oldest known Biblical texts. The Qumran manuscripts preserve parts of every book in the Hebrew Bible (except the Book of Esther)—however, they contain a number of differences in wording from the canonical texts as well as passages that were assumed to be lost forever. This volume is the perfect companion of The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, which contains English translations of the non-biblical scrolls.