The volume contains a collection of compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran, written during the Second Temple Period and linked to the Hebrew Bible through text, characters, themes or genre. Some were completely unknown before their discovery here. All the documents greatly enhance our understanding of biblial interpretation at this period.
All the material included in this volume, neither straightforwardly biblical nor strictly sectarian, will be important for understanding the nature of the Qumran library as a whole and the particular group which owned it, as Dead Sea Scrolls research moves into the twenty-first century. - J. Campbell in Palestine Exploration Quarterly 1999