Select Publications by Latter-day Saints
Relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls

The following is a list of publications on the Dead Sea Scrolls by Latter-day Saints during the past four decades. We have listed works by individuals whose scholarship is generally accepted as reputable, although we do not necessarily agree with every point made in all the publications cited. Be aware that since more scrolls have become available for study, it is evident that some of the older publications on the scrolls contain suppositions and pronouncements that are now considered dated or inaccurate. In general, this list does not include comments made about the scrolls in church magazines or the Church News, nor publications by Latter-day Saints who have an interest in the scrolls but who are not trained in ancient studies.

 

1950s

Nibley, Hugh W. "More Voices from the Dust." Instructor 91 (March 1956): 71–2, 74. Reprinted in Old Testament and Related Studies, 239–44. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986.

———. "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Book of Mormon." In An Approach to the Book of Mormon, 135-80. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1957. Reprinted 1964, 1988.

 

1960s

Rogers, Lewis M. "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran Calmly Revisited." BYU Studies 2/2 (1960): 109–28.

Nibley, Hugh W. "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Some Questions and Answers." Instructor 98 (July 1963): 233–5. Reprinted in Old Testament and Related Studies, 245–52. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986.

———. "Qumran and the Companions of the Cave." Revue de Qumran 5 (April 1965): 177–98. Reprinted as "Qumran and the Companions of the Cave: The Haunted Wilderness." In Old Testament and Related Studies, 253–84. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1986.

———. Since Cumorah. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1967. Reprinted 1988.

Tvedtnes, John A. "The Dead Sea Scrolls." In The Church of the Old Testament, 75–105. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1967. Reprinted 1980.

 

1970s

Nibley, Hugh W. "From the Dead Sea Scrolls." Appendix 1 of The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, 255–62. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1975.

———. "Churches in the Wilderness." In Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 155–86. Provo: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1978. Reprinted in The Prophetic Book of Mormon, 289–327. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1989.

 

1980s

Brown, S. Kent. "The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Mormon Perspective." BYU Studies 23/1 (1983): 49–66.

 

1990s

Cloward, Robert A. "Dead Sea Scrolls: LDS Perspective." In The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, edited by Daniel H. Ludlow et al., 1:363–364. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Nibley, Hugh W. "Apocryphal Writings and Teachings of the Dead Sea Scrolls." In Temple and Cosmos, 264–335. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1992. (Previously unpublished presentation given in 1967 at a seminary graduation.)

Ricks, Stephen D. "Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?" FARMS, 1993.

García Martínez, Florentino, and Donald W. Parry, eds. A Bibliography of the Finds in the Desert of Judah 1970–95. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Parry, Donald W. "4QSama and the Tetragrammaton." In Current Research & Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, 106–25. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Parry, Donald W. "Retelling Samuel: Echoes of the Books of Samuel in the Dead Sea Scrolls." Revue de Qumran 17 (1996): 293–306.

Parry, Donald W., and Steven W. Booras. "The Dead Sea Scrolls CD-ROM Database Project." In Current Research & Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, 239–50. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Pike, Dana M. "The Book of Numbers at Qumran: Texts and Context." In Current Research & Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, 166–93. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Pike, Dana M. "The ‘Congregation of YHWH’ in the Bible and at Qumran." Revue de Qumran 17 (1996): 233–40.

Seely, David R. "The Barki Nafshi Texts (4Q434–439)." In Current Research & Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, 194-214. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Seely, David R. "The ‘Circumcised Heart’ in 4Q434 Barki Nafshi." Revue de Qumran 17 (1996): 527–35.

Woodward, Scott R., et al. "Analysis of Parchment Fragments from the Judean Desert Using DNA Techniques." In Current Research & Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, 215-238. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.


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