 | The Dead Sea Scrolls: Catalog of the Exhibition of Scrolls and Artifacts from the Collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids by Public Museum of Grand Rapids
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $0.72 A great exhibition catalogue -- should be a model for others to follow
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 | The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Hershel Shanks
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $1.70 A great collection of essays from the Biblical Archaeology Society crowd
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 | Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reader From the Biblical Archaeology Review
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.32 Another great collection from the BAS group
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 | The Dead Sea Scrolls Today by James C. Vanderkam
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $2.74 A good introduction and overview
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 | The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English by Martin G. Abegg
Buy used from: $10.38 A Bible revised and annotated with the Dead Sea Scrolls
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 | Liturgical Works (Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls) by James R. Davila
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $4.30 A close-up look at worship texts
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 | The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature) by Jodi Magness
Buy used from: $7.75 A good survey of the theories and discoveries
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 | Complete Dead Sea Scrolls by Geza Vermes
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $2.99 The scrolls (in translation) in one volume, very handy
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 | The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls & Related Literature) by Joseph A. Fitzmyer
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $10.94 Good essays and research at possible connections
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 | The Nag Hammadi Library by James M. Robinson
Buy new: $16.07 / Used from: $3.43 Not strictly Dead Sea Scrolls, but related in time and geography
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 | What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel by William G. Dever
Buy used from: $6.50 A good archaeology survey behind the biblical texts
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 | Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society (The Biblical Resource Series) by Anthony J. J. Saldarini
Buy new: $28.80 / Used from: $26.92 A look at society around the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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 | Biblical Archaeology Review
Buy new: $13.97 This magazine probably gets the credit for freeing the Scrolls for the public
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 | An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls by Geza Vermes
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $2.61 A good introduction by one of the most noted of scroll scholars
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 | Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search For The Secret Of Qumran by Norman Golb
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $0.58 A leading scholar with alternative theories of scroll origins and the Qumran settlement
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 | Ancient Library of Qumran, The by Frank Moore Cross Jr.
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $4.82 One of the early introductions, updated, by Frank Moore Cross, an acknowledged expert
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 | Library of Qumran: On the Essenes, Qumran, John the Baptist, and Jesus by Hartmut Stegemann
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $10.89 Translated from the German, Stegemann's account is one of the best introductions
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 | Dead Sea Scrolls and NT Cloth by George J. Brooke
Buy new: $42.00 / Used from: $23.43 A good collection of essays providing mutual illumination of the Scrolls and the early Christian writings
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 | Scrolls & The New Testament, The (Christian Origins Library)
Buy used from: $9.20 A reprint of a classic text, the first major book looking at the scrolls and New Testament connections
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 | The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent
Buy used from: $0.01 An interesting look at the battle for the scrolls; a bit sensational, but fun reading...
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 | The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reappraisal (Penguin history) by John M. Allegro
Buy used from: $0.01 Allegro, perhaps the most controversial of the scroll scholars, in one of his less controversial pieces
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