Dead Sea Scrolls linkage and text comparison

MJ. Smith

While I want to expand my list, when I found that the Dead Sea Scrolls didn't behave as I expected, I limited my resources to:

1. Abegg, Martin, Jr., Peter Flint, and Eugene Ulrich. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English. New York: HarperOne, 1999.
2. Vermes, Geza. The Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Revised and extended 4th ed. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.
3. 4Q85 Psalms c. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2010.
4. Garcı́a Martı́nez, Florentino, and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. “The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (translations).” Leiden; New York: Brill, 1997–1998.

These share a common index of "Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition" which appears to be the index I must rely on for both the Text Comparison and for the linked resources features.

But while I can sometimes get the 1st and 3rd books to scroll together, I can't get the normal change 1 all the other move to that position if possible behavior. I had understood the Text comparison tool to work with any versified books with a shared index. I get odd behavior there as well. What am I doing wrong?

Rick Brannan

Note that "DSSSE En" (Garcia Martinez) is IIRC non-Biblical scrolls, which may also be the case for "The Dead Sea Scrolls in English". There are usually a few that cross over to both depending on how one defines "bible" here.

My guess, though, is that when the linkages seem brittle, you're working with either biblical or non-biblical and that may be an indicator to pay attention to when things get wonky.

Also, one other to maybe add to the mix (for Biblical scrolls): https://www.logos.com/product/55512/lexham-dead-sea-scrolls-hebrew-english-interlinear-bible