Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review

. Vintage Books USA, $15 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74445-0

Culled from the pages of Biblical Archaeology Review , which Shanks edits, these essays by scholars in the field shed light on the controversial Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient scriptural writings discovered in caves east of Jerusalem in 1947. Illustrations. (July)

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