Essays in this volume include: P E Kahle – Pre-Massoretic Hebrew N.H. Snaith – The Ben Asher Text S Talmon – The Three Scrolls of the Law that were found in the Temple Court D.N. Freedman – The Massoretic Text and the Qumran scrolls: A study in Orthography I Yeivin – A Babylonian Fragment of the Bible in the Abbreviated System