How long does it take to read The Dead Sea Scrolls?
Millar Burrows
The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows takes about 7 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1955. 435 pages, about 119,625 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Early in 1947, a fifteen-year-old Bedouin boy discovered a cave at the edge of the Dead Sea. In it were broken jars containing scrolls of leather wrapped in linen cloth, inscribed in a strange writing. Soon recognized as "the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times," the chance finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls touched off furious controversy among Bible scholars and fascinated the public. In this book, the author tells the entire story -- of the discoveries, of the attempts to date the manuscripts, of their content and their significance.
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls, Criticism, interpretation, Dode-Zeerollen, Religion
