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Edmund Wilson, The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (New York, NY: Oxford University Press; and London: Allen, 1955).

• Die Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer = The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1956 Wilson / Ewers), non-fiction (German ed.)

• Skriftrullerne fra Det døde Hav = The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1956 Wilson), non-fiction (Danish ed.)

• Los rollos del Mar Muerto = The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1956 Wilson / Speratti Piñero), non-fiction (Spanish ed.)

• De boekrollen van de Dode Zee = The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1956 Wilson / Herschberg), non-fiction (Dutch ed.)

• I manoscritti del Mar Morto = The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1958 @1955 Wilson / Tasso), non-fiction (Italian ed.)

• Odkrycia nad Morzem Martwym = The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1963 Wilson), non-fiction (Polish ed.)

• Shikai shahon (1979 Wilson), non-fiction (Japanese ed.)

Abstract

One of the most popular and influential books ever written by a non-specialist in the field of Second Temple Judaism. It made the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls known to a larger audience all around the world.

Here Edmund Wilson, brilliant author describes he most exciting manuscript find od our time in a lucid account of the original, discovery, and the implications of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls.

Editions and translations

Published in New York, NY: Oxford University Press; and London: Allen, 1955 / 2nd expanded ed. 1969: The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969. Reissued in New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978: Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

• Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1978 @1955 Wilson), reprint

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Table of contents

External links

• [ Google Books]