Comments

The first and second editions of The Dead Sea Scriptures have been praised as classics in their field:

"Dr. Caster's book is excellent: there is nothing available in book form which covers the ground so thoroughly and with such restraint. Both his comments and the translation of the Hebrew documents are written in superb English, which is a pleasure to read ... a masterly production, which can safely be put into the hands of laymen in the field."

W.F. Albright
Johns Hopkins University

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"It furnishes the most complete translations yet to be published together with Gaster's introductions and notes. The book is addressed to the intelligent general reader. Actually, as all who know Prof. Gaster could predict, it contains a wealth of original insights drawn from his wide knowledge of Judaism and comparative religion so that the book will prove very useful to the scholar as well."

Frank M. Cross, Jr.
The Biblical Archaeologist

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"I am tremendously impressed with the quality of the scholarship which it demonstrates. I have read your introduction very carefully and find myself in practically complete agreement ... in almost every detail."

Julian Morgenstern
Hebrew Union College

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"It is a book which I will always have on hand in order to refer to [its] translations. I am very pleased by [his] Introduction, which gives reasonable solutions and rejects the absurd interpretations which have recently been given."

R.P. De Vaux
Director of Excavations, Jerusalem

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