ABOUT THIS BOOK
1QHodayota is recognized as one of the most important of the Dead Sea Scrolls and key to understanding the specific worldview and piety of the Qumran community. It contains a collection of psalms giving thanks for deliverance, salvation, knowledge, and divine mercy. This volume contains the text of the reconstructed scroll of 1QHodayota published in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert volume 40 and the English translation from that volume, lightly revised. It provides the most up-to-date, accessible, and inexpensive access to the text, translation, and official numbering of the columns and lines of 1QHa.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Eileen M. Schuller is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. She is co-editor with Hartmut Stegemann of 1QHodayota and editor of the cave 4 Hodayot manuscripts and other prayer and psalmic texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, and author of The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? (Westminster John Knox, 2006). Carol A. Newsom is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is the editor of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and other documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the author of The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford University Press, 2003) and The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran (Brill, 2004).