The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible

I recently purchase a cope of the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible in English. I have noticed that there are missing sections in the Book. Jubilees, 1 Enoch and Esther have no content at all. Also the Bibliography section at the end has no content as well as the front sections including, Title page, contents, introduction and so on all the way down to How to read this book. Thanking you for your assistance.

Steve Caswell

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    Also the Bibliography section at the end has no content as well as the front sections including, Title page, contents, introduction and so on all the way down to How to read this book. Thanking you for your assistance.

    This sounds like a bug.

    FYI The sections on the extra-biblical books Jubilees and 1 Enoch contain only a short introduction and no translations. The book of Esther is the only biblical book of which no remains have been found at Qumran. 

    My copy is fine. I'd suggest that you try redownloading the book.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

    Mine is like the OP's. From what I can see, they put 'abcd' place holders, and forgot to go back.  But my version is Jan 2012. They probably fixed it? Or went back?

    And for others of similar DSS Bible interest:

    https://www.logos.com/product/55512

    ... which is Lexham's DSS Interlinear Bible .... which is why I never noticed the missing text in DSS Bible.

    Qumran Scribes ships tomorrow!

    EDIT: My show everything is all turned on (ergo the abcd placeholders).

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

    My version is also from January 2012:

    My version is also from January 2012:

    The last line in this picture and also in my version says:

    "Because the text is available elsewhere, and because of the admittedly speculative nature of including it even in a Dead Sea Scroll Bible, we have chosen not to reproduce the text here"

    Abegg, M., Jr., Flint, P., & Ulrich, E. (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English (Mal 4:6). New York: HarperOne.

    Gold package, and original language material and ancient text material, SIL and UBS books, discourse Hebrew OT and Greek NT. PC with Windows 11