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The Israel Antiquities Authority has contracted with E. J. Brill, a Dutch publisher of scholarly works, to publish a complete facsimile edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls on microfiche. In addition to all the Qumran-cave texts, this edition will include material found at some other sites in the Judean desert. The edition will contain an introduction by Emanuel Tov, editor in chief of the Dead Sea Scroll publication team, as well as the catalogue compiled by Stephen A. Reed (see “DSS Catalogue Now Available,” in this issue).
This edition is expected to comprise approximately 100 microfiches in positive form containing about 5,200 photographs. Although Brill will not undertake any new photography of the scrolls, they will work from the original negatives, or from prints in those cases where a print is superior because of deterioration of the negative. The edition will offer more than one photograph of a document, when available, an advantage if the photos reveal different details. The microfiche format, in conjunction with shooting from the original negatives, should provide high-quality images. But as one prominent scholar has said, microfiche and microfilm are always “a pain to work with” because of their physical inconvenience, so scholars will probably want to have BAS’s printed edition available for handy reference as well.
The Brill edition is expected to appear this autumn. The price will be $425 before October 1 and $485 afterward. For more information, write to E. J. Brill, P.O.B. 9000, 2300 PA Leiden, The Netherlands; or 24 Hudson Street, Kinderhook, NY 12106.
In addition to the BAS Facsimile Edition, microfilms of the scrolls are available through interlibrary loan from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Where the Huntington microfilms and the BAS Facsimile Edition overlap, the latter generally contains the better images.
The Israel Antiquities Authority has contracted with E. J. Brill, a Dutch publisher of scholarly works, to publish a complete facsimile edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls on microfiche. In addition to all the Qumran-cave texts, this edition will include material found at some other sites in the Judean desert. The edition will contain an introduction by Emanuel Tov, editor in chief of the Dead Sea Scroll publication team, as well as the catalogue compiled by Stephen A. Reed (see “DSS Catalogue Now Available,” in this issue). This edition is expected to comprise approximately 100 microfiches in positive form […]
