This book offers a concise introduction to the full range of writings in the Qumran: genuine, apocryphal, and pseudoepigraphic works as well as Biblical manuscripts. The basic knowledge regarding each work is cogently summarized and brief passages are presented verbatim. This approach allows each of the texts to speak for itself as part of a unified entity without becoming prematurely subordinated to an overarching thesis.

Géza G. Xeravits, Selye J. University, Komàrno, Slovakia and
Peter Porzig, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.