The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Preliminary Survey By A. Dupont-Sommer, Professor at the Sorbonne Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. Translated from the French by E. Margaret Rowley. Basil Blackwell. Oxford. 

'The Dead Sea Scrolls, in the brief time since they were first made known to the world, have been widely and even hotly discussed, and very different views of their age and significance have been advanced. In the present work Professor Dupont-Sommer not only presents his own view of the source and significance of the text, but offers a fuller account of their finding and their contents than can be found in any other one place in English. It therefore seemed that a service could be rendered to English readers by making it available in their tongue.'

André Dupont-Sommer (23 December 1900, Marnes-la-Coquette – 14 May 1983, Paris) was a French semitologist. He specialized in the history of Judaism around the beginning of the Common Era, and especially the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was a graduate of the Sorbonne and he taught at various institutions in France including the Collége de France (1963–1971) where he held the chair of Hebrew and Aramaic.

Cloth with dust-jacket

Includes: Ten Illustrations, Scripture map, and Chronological Table

pp: 100

Size: 195mm x 135mm x 15mm

Weight: 249g

First printed April 1952, this reprint March 1956

Condition:

Binding sound; leaves clean, though lightly age-goldened; dust-jacket with loss at spine-ends, but housed in clear protective sleeve; cloth clean but showing fading; address sticker to front-board internally with 'Property of James D. Barnes' written in red ink on the opposite leaf; sticker residue to the bottom of the main title-page. Over all condition: good ++

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