Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

====''Discoveries in the Judaean Desert'' (1955–2009)====
The content of the scrolls was published in a 40-volume series by [[Oxford University Press]] between 1955 and 2009 known as ''[[Discoveries in the Judaean Desert]]''.<ref name="orion.mscc.huji.ac.il">{{cite web|url=http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/resources/djd.shtml|title=DJD Index|publisher=Hebrew University|access-date=12 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519110203/http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/resources/djd.shtml|archive-date=19 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1952 the Jordanian Department of Antiquities assembled a team of scholars to begin examining, assembling, and translating the scrolls with the intent of publishing them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yourbiblequotes.com/dead-sea-scrolls/|title=The Dead Sea Scrolls|publisher=Your Bible Quotes|date=28 July 2014|access-date=28 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809032608/http://www.yourbiblequotes.com/dead-sea-scrolls/|archive-date=9 August 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The initial publication, assembled by [[Dominique Barthélemy]] and Józef Milik, was published as ''Qumran Cave 1'' in 1955.{{r|orion.mscc.huji.ac.il}} After a series of other publications in the late 1980s and early 1990s and with the appointment of the respected Dutch-Israeli textual scholar Emanuel Tov as editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project in 1990 publication of the scrolls accelerated. Tov's team had published five volumes covering the Cave 4 documents by 1995. Between 1990 and 2009, Tov helped the team produce 32 volumes. The final volume, Volume XL, was published in 2009.