Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994 Schiffman), book

Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls: The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity, the Lost Library of Qumran (1994) is a book by Lawrence H. Schiffman.

Abstract

Schiffman’s Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls is perhaps most noteworthy for its insistence that non-Jewish scholars hijacked the scrolls, slowing down the publication process, whereas Qumran scholarship (and its readers) would be much better off if Jewish scholars, who spoke, wrote, and understood Hebrew, took over the responsibilities for translating, publishing and analyzing the scrolls. Schiffman presents his unique thesis that the Qumran community was comprised of schismatic Sadducees, who brought many of the scrolls to the community.

Editions and translations

Published in Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1994. Reprinted in New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Translated into French (2003).