The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader. Volume 2: Calendrical Texts and Sapiential Texts, Poetic and Liturgical Texts, Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts

This is volume 2 of a two volume set, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition. This volume contains Calendrical Texts and Sapiential Texts, Poetic and Liturgical Texts, Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts. This second and revised edition of the Dead Sea Scollr Reader forms an updated and expanded publication, as follows: - DSSR II Replaces Preliminary Editions of DSSR I with fine-tuned, published editions. - DSSR II Presents Improved or Revised Texts. - DSSR II Features Texts Not Published in DSSR I. - DSSR II Reassembles Segmented Texts. - DSSR II Deletes Extremely Fragmentary Texts. - DSSR II Updates Names of Compositions. - Quotations in Pesharim and Commentaries. - Indecipherable Words/Single Letters.