Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

You might have heard two weeks ago that the Dead Sea Scrolls finally will be more accessible, because it will be put on the internet. That in itself is great news, considering the decades of politics behind the project governing who had access to which part. However there is no set date for the project, so I do not know when will you are I be able to browse through the pages, ahem scrolls, online. The more important news is the precursor of the publication: the new imaging project the Israel Antiquities Authority started. (You can read the IAA’s announcement itself or CNN’s summary. ) The essence of the project is that using the most modern infrared photography techniques scientists hope to reveal all the hidden text of the scrolls and make it more visible and accessible.

If you cannot wait for the results of the above the library already has ten books analyzing and commenting on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here is the quick list of what we have, hoping that either the titles or the authors’ name will intrigue you enough to check them out:

• Allegro, John. Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed. New York: Gramercy pub. co, [1964].
• Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard, jt. auth. The Dead Sea Scrolls deception. New York: Summit, [1991].
• Burrows, Millar. The Dead Sea Scrolls. NY: Viking, [1955].
• Eisenman, Robert H and Wise, Michael, jt. auth. The Dead Sea Scrolls uncovered. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, [1992].
• Pfeiffer, Charles F. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible. New York: Weathervane books, [1969].
• Rabin, Chaim. Qumran studies. New York: Schocken, [1957].
• Schonfield, Hugh J. Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Yoseloff, [1957].
• Shanks, Hershel, ed. Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls : A reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review. NY: Random house, [1992].
• Wilson, Edmund. Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Farrar, [1978].
• Yadin, Yigael. The message of the scrolls. New York: Grosset, [1962].