This book in two volumes gives the status quaestionis of the Qumran Copper Scroll, fifty years after its discovery.
The first part of volume one, amply illustrated with graphics and images, gives the technical expertise of its state of preservation together with the proposals for treatment developed by the laboratory EDF-Valectra for its restoration-conservation. The production of a facsimile by means of galvanoplasty and digitalized images is explained.
The second part of volume one gives a largely renewed edition of the engraved Hebrew text with an up-to-date commentary, French and English translations, and indices.
The second volume of nearly 400 plates publishes photographs and X-Rays of each segment before and after treatment, as well as the reproduction by means of galvanoplasty and digitalized images.
Daniel Brizemeure, Juriste de formation (Recherche et Développement, Direction des Affaires Internationales), Responsable de la communication du Mécénat Technologique et Scientifique d’EDF (1992 - 1999). Directeur de l’Espace EDF-ELECTRA de la Fondation EDF (1999 – 2002)
Noël Lacoudre, Chimiste à Electricité de France (Recherche et Développement, Production Nucléaire), Responsable du Laboratoire EDF – VALECTRA (1985 – 2005) opérant dans le cadre du Mécénat Technologique et Scientifique de la Fondation EDF (objets du Titanic, artefacts et manuscrit de cuivre de Qumrân, collection d’instruments SAX, …..).
Emile Puech, Dr (1992) en Histoire et Anthropologie réligieuse, La Sorbonne, Paris, Dr (1992) en Théologie, Institut Catholique de Paris, Habilité (2001) Faculté de Théologie, Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, est Directeur de Recherche au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, et Professeur à l’Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jerusalem. Il a publié entre autres un lot de manuscrits hébreux et araméens de la Grotte 4 (lot Starcky), et est directeur de la Revue de Qumran (Gabalda, Paris).
"In the end, Le Rouleau de cuivre now forms much of the foundation upon which all subsequent work on the Copper Scroll will have to be built." – Brian Schultz, Fresno Pacific University
"With this publication, some of the 'hidden treasures' of the Copper Scroll have been uncovered — just not the ones described in the Scroll itself." – Samuel Thomas, California Lutheran University
All those intrested in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the History of Late Antiquity, as well as Semitic philologists and technicians specialized in the preservation of ancient metal.