This col­lec­tion of essays by Schiff­man offers the read­er an up-to-date guide to research on the Dead Sea Scrolls. A must for the informed read­er, the essays, many pub­lished in var­i­ous jour­nals and oth­er venues, have been updat­ed for the vol­ume, mak­ing it a use­ful resource for the lat­est devel­op­ments in this fas­ci­nat­ing and impor­tant area of research for ori­gins of Judaism and Chris­tian­i­ty. While tech­ni­cal details are an essen­tial part of these dis­cus­sions, the vol­ume is very read­able. The title reflects one of the chap­ter titles, but the book is much broad­er than the top­ic of Qum­ran and Jerusalem. The 25 chap­ters fall with­in sec­tions cov­er­ing the Schol­ar­ly Con­tro­ver­sy of the scrolls; the His­to­ry, Pol­i­tics, and For­ma­tion of the Sect; Jew­ish Law at Qum­ran; the Reli­gious Out­look of the Qum­ran sec­tar­i­ans; Qum­ran Sec­tar­i­ans and Oth­ers; and Lan­guage and Lit­er­a­ture. Bib­li­og­ra­phy, indexes.