Emanuel Tov is Professor in the Department of Bible at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was one of the editors of the
Hebrew University Bible Project. He is a member of the editorial
board of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries, and served on
the Academic committee of the Magnes Press.
From 1990-2009 he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the
international Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project, which during
those years produced 32 volumes of the series Discoveries in
the Judean Desert as well as two concordances.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972
texts consisting of biblical manuscripts from what is now known as
the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1946
and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The discoveries of
the Dead Sea Scrolls have dramatically changed understanding the
Bible.
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