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Strugnell Collection

Dr. John Strugnell, Professor Emeritus of Harvard Divinity School, headed the translation project for the Dead Sea Scrolls and his library is considered one of the finest in existence.

City Seminary acquired the majority of this collection, which includes a large number of volumes centered on the first century of Christianity; a significant emphasis on the Reformation period; and, numerous works on Greek and Hebrew language, including concordances, references and texts. Altogether, there are more than four thousand volumes and journals. For more information about the collection, please check under Resources.

City Seminary of Sacramento acquires library of noted Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John Strugnell

City Seminary of Sacramento is pleased to announce the acquisition of the greater portion of the John Strugnell Library. Dr. Strugnell of Harvard Divinity School is the noted former chief editor of the Dead Seas Scrolls.

"The Strugnell Library is unique, in that it is so deep in so many areas" said City Seminary's Frank Walker, Professor of Historical Theology . " He had large sub-libraries in Semitics - including Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Ethiopic - as well as Greek and Latin, and large sections on classical studies, patristics [early church writings], apocryphal and pseudepigraphal [falsely attributed] literature, Judaism, Christianity, Hebrew Bible and New Testament studies."

Strugnell's association with the Dead Sea Scrolls began in 1955, following his training in Semitic languages and classics at Oxford University in Great Britain.

"The original Scrolls team was appointed in the early 1950s by Jordan, which nationalized the collection in 1961, and denied Jewish scholars access," according to a 1991 Jerusalem Report. Israel's Department of Antiquities left the team's jurisdiction over the Scrolls intact after Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967.

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