A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew and Aramaic Texts from Cave Four. 4 VOLS. [SIGNED]

Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeological Society, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Signed by editors on front free endpaper. Quarto. Fascicle One: xiii,118pp. Fascicle Two: xix, 309pp. Fascicle Three: xxix, 406pp. Fascicle Four: Concordance of Fascicle 1-3: xvi, 403pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering on covers and spines. "This is a historic book. A hundred years from now this book will still be cited - not only on account of its scholarship, but because it broke the monopoly on the still-unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls. Until now a small coterie of scholars has exercised exclusive control over who could see these texts. Today, nearly 40 years later, only about 20 percent of these scrolls have been published. The rest remain secret and inaccessible to other scholars - until the publication of this book." (Introduction in English). Text in Hebrew and Aramaic. Fascicle Four edited also by James Bowley. Includes bibliographical references. A magnificent complete set. (Inventory #: 50456)