GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, F. Textos de Qumran: Edição Fiel e Completa dos Documentos do Mar Morto. Traduzido do espanhol por Valmor da Silva. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1995, 582 p. - ISBN 8532612830.

Esta é a mais completa e confiável coletânea dos textos de Qumran existente em português. O livro oferece ao leitor uma tradução dos 250 manuscritos não-bíblicos mais importantes procedentes de Qumran, feita por um dos maiores especialistas na área, García Martínez, membro da equipe oficial encarregada de publicar os manuscritos e ex-diretor do Qumrân Instituut da Universidade de Groningen, Holanda.

GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, F.; TREBOLLE BARRERA, J. Os Homens de Qumran: Literatura, Estrutura e Concepções Religiosas. Traduzido do espanhol por Luís Fernando Gonçalves Pereira. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1996, 299 p. - ISBN 8532616518.

Esta obra oferece informação sólida e atual sobre a produção literária, a estrutura social, as concepções religiosas dos essênios de Qumran e suas relações com as origens do cristianismo. Alguns dos trabalhos buscam também introduzir o leitor no palco da pesquisa e da discussão científica em torno de Qumran.

GOLB, N. Quem Escreveu os Manuscritos do Mar Morto? A Busca do Segredo de Qumran. Traduzido do inglês por Sonia de Sousa Moreira. Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 2004, 579 p. - ISBN 8531205174.

Golb desafia o consenso tradicional sobre a autoria dos manuscritos de Qumran. O autor procura mostrar que os rolos são os escritos de diversos grupos do judaísmo antigo que ficavam guardados em bibliotecas de Jerusalém e que foram dali retirados pouco antes do ataque romano de 70 d.C.

SHANKS, H. (org.) Para Compreender os Manuscritos do Mar Morto. Traduzido do inglês por Laura Rumchinsky. Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 1993, 343 p.

Esta obra é composta de artigos escritos por grandes especialistas nos Manuscritos do Mar Morto e é fonte essencial para a compreensão dos mesmos e das controvérsias que eles suscitam. Os artigos foram extraídos das revistas Biblical Archaeology Review e da Bible Review, das quais Hershel Shanks é o fundador e editor.

TYLOCH, W. J. O socialismo religioso dos essênios. Traduzido do polonês por Tereza Lenartowicz et alii, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1990, 206 p. - ISBN 8527306190.

Trata-se de uma análise que se detém de um modo especial, ao lado das formas de vida e pensamento, no estatuto social e na dinâmica ideológica e religiosa do movimento essênio, bem como de seu papel na sociedade e na história do judaísmo no limiar do surgimento cristão.

VANDERKAM, J. C. Os Manuscritos do Mar Morto Hoje. Traduzido do inglês por Rubens Figueiredo. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 1995, 240 p. - ISBN 9788573020120.

Este é um livro introdutório sobre os Manuscritos do Mar Morto, destinado a um público amplo. Escrito por um dos mais respeitados membros da equipe internacional encarregada da tradução e interpretação dos manuscritos.

BOCCACCINI, G. Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways between Qumran and Enochic Judaism. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 1998, 230 p. ISBN 9780802843609.

This volume offers a provocative new view of the ideology of the Qumran sect, the ancient desert community closely related to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grabriele Boccaccini moves beyond the Essene hypothesis and posits a unique relationship between what he terms "Enochic Judaism" and the group traditionally know as the Essenes. Boccaccini argues that the literature of Qumran betrays the core of an ancient and distinct variety of Second Temple Judaism. Tracing the development of this tradition, Boccaccini shows that the Essene community at Qumran was really the offspring of the Enochic party, which in turn contributed to the birth of parties led by John the Baptist and Jesus. More here.

BOCCACCINI, G. (ed.) Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005, xviii + 472 p. - ISBN 9780802828781.

Enoch and Qumran Origins is the first comprehensive treatment of the complex and forgotten relations between the Qumran community and the Jewish group behind the pseudepigraphal literature of Enoch. The contributors demonstrate that the roots of the Qumran community are to be found in the tradition of the Enoch group rather than that of the Jerusalem priesthood. Framed by Gabriele Boccaccini’s introduction and James Charlesworth’s conclusion, this book examines the hypotheses of five particularly eminent scholars, resulting in an engaging and substantive discussion among forty-seven specialists from nine countries. The exceptional array of essays from leading international scholars in Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins makes Enoch and Qumran Origins a sine qua non for serious students of this period. More here.

CHARLESWORTH, J. (ed.) The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Princeton Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls. 3 vol. set. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2006, I: xxxii + 319 p.; II: vi + 491 p.; III: vi + 734 p. - ISBN 9781932792348.

These three volumes, the very best of critical scholarship from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity. The authors are leading scholars in this field and no other publication has collected so many interesting contributions about the largest finding of biblical and Jewish texts in the last century. Edited by J. H. Charlesworth, Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Editor and Director of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. 

COLLINS, J. J. Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009, 278 p. - ISBN 9780802828873.

With the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, fresh analysis of the evidence presented can be — and indeed, should be — made. Beyond the Qumran Community does just that, reaching a surprising conclusion: the sect described in the Dead Sea Scrolls developed later than has usually been supposed and was never confined to the site of Qumran. John J. Collins here deconstructs "the Qumran community" and shows that the sectarian documents actually come from a text spread throughout the land. He first examines the Community Rule or Yahad, and then considers the Teacher of Righteousness, a pivotal figure in the Essene movement, discovering that he was probably active in the first century BCE rather than in the Maccabean era. After examining the available evidence, Collins concludes that it is, in fact, overwhelmingly likely that the site of Qumran housed merely a single settlement of this widespread movement.

DAVILA, J. R. (ed.) The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from an International Conference at St. Andrews in 2001. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2003, xv + 340 p. - ISBN 9789004126787.

An introduction and 12 essays originally presented as papers at a conference held at St. Andrews in 2001 dedicated to the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for understanding subsequent traditions of Christianity and Judaism. The essays are organized into four categories: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature; The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity; The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Literature; The Dead Dea Scrolls and Jewish and Christian Liturgy, Mysticism, and Messianism. All essays are in English (cf. OTA 27:1, February 2004, # 750).

FLINT, P. W.; VANDERKAM, J. C. The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment I-II. Leiden: Brill, 1998-1999, vol. I: xxii + 544 p.; vol. II: xxiv + 816 p. - ISBN 9789004110618.

The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years is being published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the first scrolls at Qumran. The two-volume set contains a comprehensive set of cutting-edge articles on a wide range of topics that are archaeological, historical, literary, sociological, or theological in character. The contributors to these volumes form an international team of leading specialists in the field. They have written critical surveys of particular aspects of Dead Sea Scrolls research, focusing on significant developments, theories and conclusions, while also indicating directions for future study.

GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, F.; TIGCHELAAR, E. J. C. (ed.) The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition I-II. Leiden: Brill, 2000, vol I: xxiv + 628 p.; vol. II: v +734 p. - ISBN 9789004115477. 

This is a practical reference tool to facilitate access to the Qumran collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It contains newly edited Hebrew and Aramaic transcriptions and English translations of the non-biblical scrolls on facing pages, arranged by serial number from Cave 1 to Cave 11. In addition, it offers a summary of the contents of the biblical scrolls from Qumran. Each Q-number is provided with a heading which contains the essential information on the text and selected bibliographical references. Although unidentified and unclassified fragments have been omitted, and no snippets of manuscripts have been reproduced, this edition aims to be complete for the non-biblical scrolls. The work is primarily intended for classroom use and for use by specialists from other disciplines who need a reliable compendium to all the materials found. It will also be useful as a companion for those studying the original manuscripts using the microfiche or CD-ROM editions of the scrolls. This text was published also in one volume, in 1998, with 1384 pp.

GROSSMAN, M. L. (ed.) Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment of Old and New Approaches and Methods. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010, 332 p. - ISBN 9780802840097. 

Fifteen respected DSS scholars representing diverse perspectives offer here a window into the scholarly study of these ancient texts. Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls introduces readers to a wide range of established and experimental treatments of the Scrolls, including paleography, archaeology, manuscript analysis, and a variety of literary, historical, and social scientific approaches. The authors provide not only an introduction to a given approach but also a more self-reflective assessment of the limits of their approaches and the potential pitfalls associated with them. In place of a single authoritative strategy, here are a variety of strategies — some overlapping and others standing alone — all the products of a process that is unusually collaborative. Taken as a whole, they provide a vibrant intersectional picture of DSS studies on the cusp of its seventh decade.

HEMPEL, C. The Damascus Texts. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, 128 p. - ISBN 9781841270555.

CRAWFORD, S. W. The Temple Scroll and Related Texts. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, 104 p. - ISBN 9781841270562.

These are the numbers 1 and 2 of the series Companions to the Qumran Scrolls. This series offers comprehensive and accessible introductions to the corpus of texts from Qumran, and is ideal for undergraduate and graduate classes. The Damascus Texts, devoted to the texts of the Damascus Document, both from Cairo and from Qumran, discusses the contents, history of research and critical questions arising from this most important Qumran composition. The Temple Scroll and Related Texts, devoted to the longest and one of the most complex of the manuscripts, discusses the contents of the Temple Scroll as well as the related 'New Jerusalem' text, and also examines connections with other Qumran writings.

HILHORST, A.; PUECH, E.; TIGCHELAAR, E. (eds.) Flores Florentino: Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Studies in Honour of Florentino García Martínez. Leiden: Brill, 2008, 836 p. - ISBN 9789004162921. 

This volume contains forty-eight essays, presented by friends, colleagues and students from many countries, in honour of Florentino Garcia Martinez, director of the Groningen Qumran Institute, editor-in-chief of the "Journal for the Study of Judaism", and professor in Leuven. The majority of the essays are in the areas of the honoree's own scholarship and interests, including primarily Qumranica, but also many other fields of Second Temple Judaism, from late biblical texts and Septuagint up to early rabbinic writings. Florentino's own polyglottism, evident from his bibliography, and his close relations with many scholars from Southern Europe, is reflected in the inclusion of a few French, Spanish and Italian articles in this volume.

KUGLER, R. A.; SCHULLER, E. M. (eds.) The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty: Proceedings of the 1997 Society of Biblical Literature Qumran Section Meetings. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999, viii + 227 p. - ISBN 0788505432.

This excellent book, after the editor's preface, comprises eighteen articles in five categories. This veritable "who's who" of international scrolls research commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls with essays focused on: 1.The History of Dead Sea Scrolls Research; 2.The Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; 3.Early Judaism and the New Testament; 4.The Damascus Document; 5.The Future of Dead Sea Scrolls Research. Review: RBL. 

PARRY, D. W. ; TOV, E. (eds.) The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader. Leiden: Brill, 2004 (The Reader consists of six individual parts or titles: Part 1. Texts Concerned with Religious Law; Part 2. Exegetical Texts; Part 3. Parabiblical Texts; Part 4. Calendrial and Sapiental Texts; Part 5. Poetic and Liturgical Texts; Part 6. Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts). - ISBN 9789004126503 (vol. 1).

This edition presents for the first time all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. Of these texts, some twenty were not previously published. The Hebrew-Aramaic texts in this edition are mainly based on the FARMS database of Brigham Young University, which, in its turn, reflects the text editions of the ancient scrolls with great precision, including modern diacritical signs. The Reader consists of six individual parts. The purpose of the classification is to enhance the research facilities of the individual texts within their respective genres, especially in courses at Universities and Colleges. Donald W. Parry is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Brigham Young University. He is a member of the International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and author or (co)editor of a number of books, including The Great Isaiah Scroll: A New Edition (Brill, 1999). Emanuel Tov is J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University. He is the editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls publication project and the author of two handbooks on textual criticism. 

TOV, E. (ed.) The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library, a CD-Rom edition. Leiden: Brill, 2006. - ISBN 9789004150621.

The new and comprehensive electronic reference work on The Dead Sea Scrolls, prepared by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, under the editorship of Emanuel Tov.

VANDERKAM, J.; FLINT, P. The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls : Their Significance For Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2002, 480 p. - ISBN 9780060684655.

This comprehensive, up-to-date guide is the definitive introduction to all aspects of the scrolls, including their teachings, the community that created them, the world of Judaism, the origins of Christianity, our understanding of Jesus and the New Testament. The book includes many recent developments in Scrolls research, bringing readers current information on new DNA dating techniques, discoveries in linguistics, and archaeological findings. Featuring photos of the original texts, the sites, and the scholars who deciphered them, and including illustrative passages from the scrolls. 

VV.AA. The Dead Sea Scrolls. SBL: Atlanta, GA, 2007, 96 p. - ISBN 9781589832701.
This book provides readers with a full historical and photographic account of the Dead Sea Scrolls, from their initial discovery in 1947 to their recent publication and ongoing interpretation. Within the pages of this full-color volume, which includes over 90 photos, readers will learn not only how the Dead Sea Scrolls were found but also why many scholars believe that other scrolls still await discovery. More here.