Download or read book Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XIV. Qumran Cave 4: IX written by Eugene Ulrich and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive scholarly edition continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains twenty-four manuscripts of the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Kings, antedating previous Hebrew texts by a millenium. The scrolls are valuable witnesses to the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical text and have been used for recent revised translation of the Bible.