Lexham Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew-English Interlinear Bible
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This interlinear edition of the biblical Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls brings a new level of user-friendly functionality to this priceless collection of ancient texts. The resource collates the textual witnesses of hundreds of manuscript fragments into a single text of the Hebrew Bible as collectively attested in the Qumran scrolls.
The text draws on expert scholarly analysis to select the best readings for verses with multiple manuscript witnesses. Verses with multiple witnesses include notes linking to individual transcriptions of the variant readings. This edition also features Logos Hebrew Morphology, so you can search the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Lexham Hebrew Bible as a single body of literature in one search.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was a monumental event in the history of biblical studies. With the Lexham Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew-English Interlinear Bible, you can dig into this biblical treasure trove and see for yourself what a powerful witness these ancient manuscripts bear to the text of the Hebrew Bible!
For more products from Lexham Press, check out the Lexham Hebrew-English Interlinear Bible (LHI).
Key Features
- Includes an introduction by Ken M. Penner
- Provides seven lines of interlinear data, including Hebrew manuscript text, lemmas, morphology, and English transliterations and glosses
- Collates material from hundreds of manuscript fragments into one easy-to-use resource
- Allows mixing of Hebrew and English terms interchangeably for powerful searches and word studies
- Uses Logos’s transcription of the Hebrew manuscripts, reflecting recent scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls
About the Editor
Ken M. Penner is the associate professor of religious studies at St. Francis Xavier University. He is also the author of Old Testament Greek Pseudepigrapha with Morphology and editor of The Lexham English Septuagint (LES).
Reviews
4 ratings
Nycholas Maia
7/7/2025
It is extremely important to be aware that this resource, as good as it is, does not include all of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It only includes the books of the Hebrew Bible, excluding the deuterocanonical books found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (such as the book of Tobit, Sirach, and the Letter of Jeremiah (Baruch 6)). Also, in the books of the Hebrew Bible attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls there are some missing parts, such as "Isaiah 11 and 12", Psalm 82, etc. Ideally, I hope that in the future this resource will correct these details and include all of the Dead Sea Scrolls, whether they belong to the Hebrew Bible or not (such as deuterocanonical) and also the Greek scrolls of the LXX. This complete inclusion of the biblical evidence found in the Dead Sea Scrolls would not only present the data more accurately, but would also help the various Christian denominations to better understand the Jewish religion of the time of Jesus without making assumptions from post-rabbinic Judaism (70 AD) or the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century.
Elizabeth Durack
2/11/2024
I went looking for Tobit and found it's not even included! There were texts of the book of Tobit found at both Qumran and Masada. The problem is probably that the resource was made by protestants and intentionally excludes Old Testament works that were rejected by Martin Luther.
Adam Olean
7/12/2019
Douglas Ray
2/8/2018
Professor Mario Porras
2/6/2018
Scott Schwarzrock
10/20/2017
I do think that this resource is well done. However, the first time I used it, I was working in Isaiah 12. I wanted to compare the Hebrew of the Qumran scrolls to the MT. Much to my surprise, chapters 11 and 12 of Isaiah are not included. This makes no sense because these chapters are in the Great Isaiah Scroll. The introduction of this product states that passages are not included in this resource if they are not found in the Qumran scrolls. Why were chapters 11 and 12 excluded? Other than these chapters, (and perhaps others that I have not yet discovered) I would say that this resource is rather helpful for quick yet in-depth textual criticism.
