The scrolls from the Dead Sea / Edmund Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dead Sea scrolls.

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Hazel (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 121 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm

Edition:

[Fifth print.].

Other Title:

Dead Sea Scrolls

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [1956]

Contents:

The metropolitan Samuel

The Essene Order

The monastery

The Teacher of Righteousness

What would Renan have said?

General Yadin.

Notes:

Title in Hebrew on cover.

"Fifth Printing, 1956."

"This essay, in a somewhat abridged form, first appeared in the New Yorker magazine."

1969 edition published under title: Dead Sea Scrolls.

Light brown cloth boards.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "To Burton & Hazel from E. W. This is really the lost chapter of 'Red, Black', etc. March 6 1956 New York".

Culture Class Collection copy has article from Long Island Star Journal laid in.

OCLC:

234009967