The Dead Sea Scrolls

NY: Viking Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine-Collectible. FOURTEENTH PRINTING. 6.5"X9.5" 435 bibliographed pages. Red cloth boards w/gilt letters on spine. Translations by author. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, no DJ, unmarked. Fading to bottom of front board. Faint dust staine along top edge of front board. Few very faint soil spots. Secure ship w/track #. An account of archeological finds Edmund Wilson called "without any question the most precious discoveries of their kind since the texts of the Greek & Latin classics brought to light in the Renaissance." Preface: A Word to the Wise; Discoveries & discussions; The first discoveries; Alarms & excursions; Later discoveries; The age of the manuscripts; The evidence of archeology & paleography; The evidence of text & language; The dates of composition; Historical allusions in the Habakkuk commentary (2 parts); Identifications of persons & events; Historical allusions in the other documents; Ideas, vocabulary & literary relations; The community of Qumran; Origin, history & organization; Beliefs; Identification; The importance of the Dead Sea scrolls; Contributions to textual criticism, historical grammar etc.; Contributions to the study of Judaism & Christianity; Translations; The Damascus document; The Habakkuk commentary; The manual of discipline; from The war of the sons of light with the sons of darkness; from the Thanksgiving psalms; Bibliography.