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Article: The Dead Seas Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible
- Article from:
- Journal of Biblical Literature
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible, by Eugene Ulrich. Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Leiden: Brill, 1999. Pp. xviii + 309. $25.00.
There are few scholars in the field of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible with more breadth and depth of knowledge than Eugene Ulrich. As chief editor of the biblical scrolls from Qumran Cave 4, Ulrich has spent the past twenty years studying the oldest biblical manuscripts yet discovered, in the process accumulating a wealth of information about the history of the biblical text. His careful work is familiar to text critics from the excellent editions in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert ...