James A. Sanders
-- Claremont School of Theology, Claremont Graduate University,
Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center
"Joseph Fitzmyer has done it again: a complete and reliable
reference work giving far greater access to the Scrolls for
scholars, students, and future readers than previously available. .
. After 1991 over thirty volumes of the series have been published.
This volume provides data for access to all the published Scrolls,
various bibliographies of the Scrolls, early survey reports of the
discoveries and of the archaeology involved, concordances,
dictionaries and grammars that have been compiled, listings of
translations available, Fitzmyer's own outlines of some of the
major ancient documents, a bibliography covering topics of interest
concerning the Scrolls, an exhaustive list of sigla and numbers
used to designate the individual manuscripts, and finally a list of
the electronic resources available for accessing the texts
themselves. It is a remarkable achievement and a necessary tool for
all serious students of the Scrolls as well as for tyros just
entering the field. The gratitude of the whole world of Scrolls
scholarship is due to Fitzmyer for this precious gift." Eugene
Ulrich
-- University of Notre Dame
"Father Fitzmyer -- a veteran scholar intimately involved in
scrolls scholarship since the first discoveries, and blessed with
an unsurpassed reputation for thoroughness and accuracy -- has
produced a portable gold mine of essential information on the Dead
Sea Scrolls. This guide is encyclopedic in scope and detail,
containing a broad array of classified lists of the manuscripts
from Qumran and all other sites, outlines of major texts, catalogs
of concordances and translations, bibliographies covering all
aspects from archaeology and paleography to Halakah and the New
Testament, and descriptions of valuable electronic resources."
Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
-- Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
"Fr. Joseph Fitzmyer has been one of the premier experts on the
Dead Sea Scrolls for more than fifty years. His guidebook is full
of accurate information about the ancient texts and the best modern
scholarship. It is the ideal starting point for doing serious
research on these important documents and their significance for
early Judaism and early Christianity."
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