Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader, Volume 3 Parabiblical Texts written by Donald Parry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition presents for the first time all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. Of these texts, some twenty were not previously published. The Hebrew-Aramaic texts in this edition are mainly based on the FARMS database of Brigham Young University, which, in its turn, reflects the text editions of the ancient scrolls (mainly DJD) with great precision, including modern diacritical signs. The Reader consists of six individual parts. The purpose of the classification is to enhance the research facilities of the individual texts within their respective genres, especially in courses at Universities and Colleges.