[Excerpted from the Course Procedures & Requirements file]

Requirements.--

Each registered member of the class will contribute 
a critical review of one approved book dealing with the DSS.

Pre-approved books for reviewing will be found in the 
bibliographical list below. The review should not exceed 500 
words (2 traditional pages) and should include both descriptive 
information (what the author has attempted to do) and critical 
observations (how well the author succeeds; neglected subjects, 
accuracy, consistency, etc.). The format of the review should 
imitate that used by IOUDAIOS-REVIEW, which will be provided on 
request (you can also find it by yourself on the ccat.sas 
gopher). Reviews will be due before midterm break on 2 March.

Approved Books for Student Critical Reviewing.--

There are many books of varying quality dealing with the scrolls 
or with some particular aspect of their presumed relevance. 
For an extensive listing, see Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The DSS: Major 
Publications and Tools for Study (Scholars Press 1990\2) Reviews 
of books other than those found on the following list will be 
permitted, with the instructor's prior permission. If you wish to 
review one of the following books, please register your interest 
with the instructor so that duplication can be minimized, or 
perhaps even avoided. 

Allegro, John Marco
The DSS: a Reappraisal (Pelican 1956, 1964\2)
[reviewer: Allison Stewart]
The DSS and the Origins of Christianity (Criterion 1957)
The DSS and the Christian Myth (Westbridge 1979; repr 1984)
[reviewer: David Slarskey]

Burrows, Millar
The DSS (Viking 1955) [also includes translations]
More Light on the DSS (Viking 1958) [includes translations]

Cook, Edward M.
Solving the Mysteries of the DSS: New Light on the Bible 
(Zondervan 1994) pb 13 [rev BAR 9/94 6]

Cross, Frank M.
The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies 
(Doubleday 1958, 1961\2; repr Baker 1980) 260 pp 
[reviewers: Karen Farji]

Danielou, Jean
The DSS and Primitive Christianity (Greenwood 1979; *1958 Fr)
[reviewer: Joshua Wetherbee]

Dupont-Sommer, Andre
The DSS: A Preliminary Survey (Blackwell 1952)
Essene Writings from Qumran [tr by G. Vermes] (Blackwell 1961; 
repr Peter Smith 1971; 4th French ed 1980) [includes translations]

Fritsch, Charles T. 
The Qumran Community: its History and Scrolls (Macmillan 1956)
[reviewer: Syri Koelfgen]

Fujita, N. S. 
A Crack in the Jar: What Ancient Jewish Documents Tell us about 
the NT (Paulist 1986) 

Golb, Norman
Who Wrote the DSS (Scribner 1995)
[reviewers: Glen Aduana, (Irv Novik)]

Graystone, Geoffrey
The DSS and the Originality of Christ (Sheed & Ward 1956)
[reviewer: Vincent Liu]

Harrison, Roland Kenneth
The DSS: An Introduction (Harper 1961)
[reviewer: Sarah Carpenter]

Knibb, Michael
The Qumran Community (Cambridge 1987) [includes some translations]

Milik, Josef T.
Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea (SCM 1959)
  tr J. Strugnell 160pp
[reviewer: Kim Noble]

Mowry, Lucetta
The DSS and the Early Church (Chicago 1962)

Murphy, Roland Edmund
The DSS and the Bible (Newman 1956)

Pfeiffer, Charles F.
The DSS (?? 1960?)

Ringgren, Helmar
The Faith of Qumran: The Theology of the DSS (Fortress 1963)
[reviewer: Lisa Bronowitz]

Schiffman, Lawrence
Reclaiming the DSS (Jewish Publication Society 1994)
[reviewer: Dan Werlin]

Silberman, Neil Asher
The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism, and the War for the 
DSS (Putnam 1994)
[reviewer: Christine Boulos]

Stegemann, Hartmut
The Library of Qumran (Kampen 1994) 320pp
[includes translations?]

Sutcliffe, Edmund F.
The Monks of Qumran as Depicted in the DSS (Newman 1960)

Unger, Merrill F.
The DSS (?? 1960?)

Vermes, Geza
Discovery in the Judean Desert (Desclee 1956) 237 pp
The DSS: Qumran in Perspective (Collins-World 1978; 
  repr Fortress, 1981) 240pp pb 

Wilson, Edmund
The DSS 1947-1969 (Oxford 1969)
  [originally The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1955)]

Yadin, Yigael
The Message of the Scrolls (Grosset & Dunlap 1962; repr 
Crossroad 1992)

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