The temple scroll

By: Prof. Ygal  Yadin

The Temple Scroll is the longest scroll found at Qumran and one of the most important Dead Sea documents. It contains religious laws, most of which concern the Temple, its purity regulations, its festivals and the sacrifices and sacred food eaten there. Some of the laws differ from those found in other Jewish sources of the Second Temple period.

The set is available in English and Hebrew editions.

[editio princeps in three volumes with supplement] (1984)

32 x 25 cm., hard cover, boxed

Vol. I:      Introduction (408 pp.)

Vol. II:    Text and Commentary (468 pp.)

Vol. III:   Plates and Text (220 pp.)

Supplement: Supplementary Plates

 About the Author:

 Yigael Yadin (1917-1984) was one of Israel’s foremost archaeologists and son of the noted archaeologist, Eleazar Sukenik. Besides his political career in later life, he devoted himself to research and archaeology and received the Israel Prize in Jewish studies, for his doctoral thesis on the translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was a prominent figure in excavating a host of major sites, such as caves of the Judean Desert, the Qumran Caves, Masada, Hazor, Tel Megiddo and Tel Gezer.

Yadin’s meticulous work has shed light on various periods of ancient Israel, such as the Canaanite, First Temple, and Herodian periods, as well as the Bar Kokhba revolt. Perhaps his most noted contribution to the field of archaeology was his deciphering several of the Dead Sea scrolls found in the Judean Desert.