Fifty years after the Scrolls' first discovery, and following the release of the scroll texts to scholars in 1991, this revised and expanded edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls in English crowns a lifetime of research by the esteemed Qumran scholar Geza Vermes. This is the most complete and authoritative Scrolls edition available: it contains superb translations of all the texts sufficiently well preserved to be rendered into English. Hitherto unpublished texts are included, among them important documents relating to the Community's liturgical calendar, its rules and observances, further sections of the Genesis Apocrypha, much Wisdom literature and, remarkably, a crucial inscription discovered among the Qumran ruins in 1996.