Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (1955-2011 Clarendon), book series

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Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (1955-2011) is a book series, published by Clarendon (Oxford, England), as the official presentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The forty volumes of the series offer workable scholarly editions of the texts of the major scroll discoveries near the Dead Sea, accompanied by introductions, transcriptions, translations, notes, indices, photographic plates, and hand drawn figures.

History

Roland de Vaux was the first editor-in-chief of the series, from 1951 until his death in September 1971. He was succeeded by Pierre Benoit (1971-1984), John Strugnell (1984-1990) and Emanuel Tov (1990-). The forty volumes were edited by international specialists and published either in French or in English.

The rhythm of publication of the volumes varied over the decades:

  • 1950s - One volume: 1 (1955)
  • 1960s - Four volumes: 2 (1961); 3 (1962); 4 (1965); 5 (1968)
  • 1970s - One volume: 6 (1977)
  • 1980s - One volume: 7 (1982)
  • 1990s - Twenty volumes: 8 (1990); 9 (1992); 10 (1994); 13 (1994); 14 (1995); 19 (1995); 18 (1996); 22 (1996); 15 (1997); 20 (1997); 24 (1997); 27 (1997); 11 (1998); 23 (1998); 25 (1998); 26 (1998); 12 (1999); 29 (1999); 34 (1999); 35 (1999)
  • 2000s - Twelve volumes: 16 (2000); 36 (2000); 38 (2000); 21 (2001); 28 (2001); 30 (2001); 31 (2001); 33 (2001); 39 (2002); 17 (2005); 40 (2008); 37 (2009)
  • 2010s - One volume: 32 (2011)

Books in the series

1-9

M. Baillet, Qumrân grotte 4.III (4Q482–4Q520) ( DJD VII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1982). xiv + 339 pp. + lxxx plates.

E. Tov with the collaboration of R. A. Kraft, The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXIIgr) ( DJD VIII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1990; reprinted with corrections 1995). x + 169 pp. + xx plates.

P. W. Skehan, E. Ulrich, and J. E. Sanderson, Qumran Cave 4.IV: Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts ( DJD IX ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1992). xiii + 250 pp. + xlvii plates.

10-19

E. Qimron and J. Strugnell, Qumran Cave 4.V: Miqsat Ma'ase ha-Torah ( DJD X ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1994). xiv + 235 pp. + viii plates.

E. Eshel et al., in consultation with J. VanderKam and M. Brady, Qumran Cave 4.VI: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 1 ( DJD XI ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1998). xi + 473 pp. + xxxii pl.

E. Ulrich , F. M. Cross, et al., Qumran Cave 4.VII: Genesis to Numbers ( DJD XII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1994; reprinted 1999). xv + 272 pp. + xlix plates.

H. Attridge et al., in consultation with J. VanderKam, Qumran Cave 4.VIII: Parabiblical Texts, Part 1 ( DJD XIII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1994). x + 470 pp. + xliii plates.

E. Ulrich, F. M. Cross, et al., Qumran Cave 4.IX: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Kings ( DJD XIV ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1995; reprinted 1999). xv + 183 pp. + xxxvii plates.

E. Ulrich et al., Qumran Cave 4.X: The Prophets ( DJD XV ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1997). xv + 325 pp. + lxiv plates.

E. Ulrich et al., Qumran Cave 4.XI: Psalms to Chronicles ( DJD XVI ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2000). xv + 302 pp. +xxxviii plates.

F. M. Cross, et al., Qumran Cave 4.XII: 1-2 Samuel ( DJD XVII ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2005). 332 pp. + xxviii plates.

J. M. Baumgarten, Qumran Cave 4.XIII: The Damascus Document (4Q266–273) ( DJD XVIII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1996). xix + 236 pp. + xlii plates.

M. Broshi et al., in consultation with J. VanderKam, Qumran Cave 4.XIV: Parabiblical Texts, Part 2 ( DJD XIX ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1995). xi +267 pp. + xxix plates.

20-29

T. Elgvin et al., in consultation with J. A. Fitzmyer, Qumran Cave 4.XV: Sapiential Texts, Part 1 ( DJD XX ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1997). xi + 246 pp. + xviii plates.

S. Talmon, J. Ben-Dov, U. Glessmer, Qumran Cave 4.XVI: Calendrical Texts ( DJD XXI ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2001). xii + 263 pp. + xiii plates.

G. J. Brooke et al., in consultation with J. Vanderkam, Qumran Cave 4.XVII: Parabiblical Texts, Part 3 ( DJD XXII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1996). xi + 352 pp. + xxix plates.

F. García Martínez, E. J. C. Tigchelaar, and A. S. van der Woude, Qumran Cave 11.II: (11Q2–18, 11Q20–31) ( DJD XXIII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1998). xiii + 487 pp. + liv plates.

  • 24. M. J. W. Leith, Wadi Daliyeh Seal Impressions ( DJD XXIV ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1997). xxv + 249 pp. + xxiv plates.
  • 26. P. Alexander and G. Vermes, Qumran Cave 4.XIX: 4QSerekh Ha-Yah [ ad and Two Related Texts ( DJD XXVI ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1998). xvii + 253 pp. + xxiv plates.
  • 27. H. M. Cotton and A. Yardeni. Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek Documentary Texts from Nahal H?ever and Other Sites, with an Appendix Containing Alleged Qumran Texts (The Seiyâl Collection II) ( DJD XXVII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1997). xxvii + 381 pp. + 33 figures + lxi plates.
  • 28. D. Gropp, Wadi Daliyeh II: The Samaria Papyri for Wadi Daliyeh ; E. Schuller et al., in consultation with J. VanderKam and M. Brady, Qumran Cave 4.XXVIII: Miscellanea, Part 2 ( DJD XXVIII ; Oxford: Clarendon, 2001). xv + 254 pp. + lxiii plates.
  • 29. E. Chazon et al., in consultation with J. VanderKam and M. Brady, Qumran Cave 4.XX: Poetical and Liturgical Texts, Part 2 ( DJD XXIX ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1999). xiii + 478 pp. + xxviii plates.

30-39

D. Dimant, Qumran Cave 4.XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts ( DJD XXX ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2001). xiv + 278 pp. + xii plates.

É. Puech, Qumran Grotte 4.XXII: Textes araméens, première partie: 4Q529–549 ( DJD XXXI ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2001). xviii + 439 pp. + xxii plates.

D. M. Pike and A. Skinner with a contribution by T. L. Szink, in consultation with J. VanderKam and M. Brady, Qumran Cave 4.XXIII: Unidentified Fragments ( DJD XXXIII ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2001). xv + 376 pp. + xli plates.

J. Strugnell, D. J. Harrington and T. Elgvin, in consultation with J. A. Fitzmyer, Qumran Cave 4.XXIV: 4QInstruction (Musar leMevin): 4Q415 ff. . ( DJD XXXIV ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1999). xvi + 584 pp. + xxxi plates.

J. Baumgarten et al., Qumran Cave 4.XXV: Halakhic Texts ( DJD XXXV ; Oxford: Clarendon, 1999). xi + 173 pp. + xii plates.

S. J. Pfann, Qumran Cave 4.XXVI: Cryptic Texts ; P. S. Alexander, et al., in consultation with J. VanderKam and M. Brady, Miscellanea, Part 1 ( DJD XXXVI ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2000). xvi + 739 + xlix plates.

É. Puech, Qumran Cave 4.XXVII: Textes araméens, deuxième partie: 4Q550–575, 580–582 ( DJD XXXVII ; Oxford : Clarendon, in preparation ). É Puech, Qumran Grotte 4.XXVII: Textes en Arameen, deuxieme partie. (DJD XXXVII; Oxford: Clarendon, 2008).

J. Charlesworth et al. in consultation with J. VanderKam and M. Brady, Miscellaneous Texts from the Judaean Desert ( DJD XXXVIII ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2000). xvii + 250 pp. + xxxvi plates.

E. Tov, ed., The Text from the Judaean Desert: Indices and an Introduction to the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series ( DJD XXXIX ; Oxford : Clarendon, 2002). x + 452 pp.

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