MMT as the Maltese Falcon

Qumran Cave 4-V: Miqsat Ma’ase Ha-Torah. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert X

Elisha Qimron and John Strugnell, in consultation with Ya’akov Sussman and with contributions by Ya’akov Sussman and Ada Yardeni (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) 235 pp., 8 photographic plates, $60.00

Character for character, The Maltese Falcon has nothing on the drama of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet simply are no match for the likes of Père Roland de Vaux and Professor John Strugnell. How can the inscrutable Peter Lorre compare with shy young Elisha Qimron?