'In every respect, the volume lives up the tradition set in previous volumes, and for this those who care about the Scrolls are indebted to the editors, Oxford University Press, and the angels who have financially supported the project.' George W.E. Nickeslburg, Jnl for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21 (2000). 'Fragmentary as they are, the texts in the volume are a vaulable resource for the student of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. First, they attest a wider variety in the genre of 'biblical paraphase' of 'rewritten Bible' that previous evidence has indicated.' George W.E.

Nickeslburg, Jnl for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21 (2000). 'an exemplary balance of detailed analysis of the actual evidence, imanination, erudition, and caution in drawing conclusions.' George W.E. Nickeslburg, Jnl for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21 (2000). 'All these documents greatly enhance our understanding of biblical interpretation during the Second Temple period and of the phenomenon of pseudepigraphy so prevalent in antiquity.' Old Testament Abstracts The publication of this volume has highlighted issues that lie beyond the text-critical domain.All eight scholars should be warmly thanked for producing a detailed and reliable edition of these important texts.

'This edition was most skilfully prepared by J.M. Bamugarten based on the transcriptions produced by J.R. Malik.' Charlotte Hempel, University of Birmingham, Reviews in Religion and Theology, 1997/2 May 'another very welcome addition to the growing corpus of official publications of the Qumran texts . This beautiful volume belongs in any library that supports biblical research, and it would be a gem in any scholar's library.' John C.

Endres, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 59, 1997 All the material included in this volume, neither straightforwardly biblical nor strictly sectarian, will be important for understanding the nature of the Qumran library as a whole and the particular group which owned it, as Dead Sea Scrolls research moves into the twenty-first century. - J. Campbell in Palestine Exploration Quarterly 1999.