When our 60th-anniversary coverage continues in the July/August issue, Geza Vermes of Oxford University recounts his work on the historical framework of the scrolls and the ideological similarities between the Qumran sect and the early Christians, and Lawrence Schiffman from New York University discusses how the scrolls have enlighted our understanding of Late Second Temple period and early Rabbinic Judaism.

In our September/October issue, James Charlesworth of Princeton Theological Seminary reflects on how the scrolls revealed the diversity of Jewish thought from which Jesus and Christianity emerged, and Notre Dame’s James VanderKam relates what it was like being in the second generation of scholars, who inherited scroll publication assignments from overworked editors like Józef Milik.