Preliminary Material / Weston W. Fields -- Chapter 1: First Discoveries at Qumran / E. L. Sukenik -- Chapter 2: The Mystery of Cave 1 / Gerald Lankester Harding -- Chapter 3: Discoveries at Wadi Murabba’at / Father Roland de Vaux -- Chapter 4: The Bountiful Year / Father Roland de Vaux -- Chapter 5: More Acquisition and Decipherment / Father Roland de Vaux -- Chapter 6: The Cave 4 Team / Father Maurice Baillet -- Chapter 7: The St. Mark’s Scrolls Return / Frank M. Cross -- Chapter 8: The Most Productive Year / Gerald Lankester Harding -- Chapter 9: Cave 4 Work Continues But is Stopped by the Suez Crisis / John Allegro -- Chapter 10: Regrouping After Suez / Father Roland de Vaux -- Chapter 11: The Last Cave 4 Scrolls / Father Roland de Vaux -- Chapter 12: The Museum is on the Brink / Father Roland de Vaux -- Chaptec 13: A Ray of Hope for the Museum / Father Jean Starcky -- Postscript / Weston W. Fields -- Timeline / Weston W. Fields -- Abbreviations / Weston W. Fields -- Endnotes / Weston W. Fields -- Scrolls Ledger / Weston W. Fields -- Glossary / Weston W. Fields -- Index / Weston W. Fields.

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Who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls? When and where were they discovered? How were they saved? Who bought them and who paid for them? Who has them now and who owns them? Will more be discovered? Have all the scrolls been published? Are some still hidden away? Were there conspiracies to suppress some scrolls? Preceded by The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Short History, The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History, volume 1, is the first of a projected two volumes offering a more complete account of the discovery of the scrolls and their history over the past 60 years since the first scrolls were discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea.