Once they were lost, but now are found, but Fields, executive director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation in Jerusalem, offers a fuller history than that. Except in the chronology, he is not concerned with how the documents were generations and ended in hidden at Qumran. Rather he focuses on what has become of them since the initial discovery in 1947, how they have and have not been made accessible scholars and the public, and the impact they have made and are continuing to make in history and religion. Lavishly and colorfully illustrated. There is no index. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)