The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation The Dead Sea Scrolls
represent the most important find of the 20th century for
understanding the history of the Middle East in the centuries
surrounding the birth of Christ. The scrolls provide an intimate
link to the culture and background of Israel and Palestine with
huge implications for understanding the political situation of
the first century and gaining a picture of the relationship
between Judaism and early Christianity. Reading the scrolls
themselves demonstrates important cultural, theological, and
conceptual connections between the Judaism and the New Testament
authors. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation presents a
fully revised edition of Michael Wise, Martin Abegg, Jr. and
Edward Cook's translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Between the
first edition and this revised edition, numerous volumes of new
texts have been published. The "official" scholarly edition of
the Scrolls, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, has gone from
having ten published volumes in