Thirty international scholars probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays engage with the lively debate continues over the archaeology and history of the site, the nature and identity of the sect, and its relation to the broader world of Second Temple Judaism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition. The result is a great work with excellent essays, which not only marks a decade of scrolls scholarship, butâmore importantlyâ is a farewell to an era of consensus and authoritative views and the welcoming of scholarly disagreement and discourse.