Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Measuring Time, James C. Vanderkam, Routledge 1998, £11.99, paperback, 136 pp.

The calendric material in the Dead Sea Scrolls formS the core of this discussion of the Hebrew calendar, although other scriptural and non-scriptural evidence is considered. The horoscopes from document 4Q186 (originally published in Gaza Vermes, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 1962) is summarised along with two other astrological documents, 4Q318 and 4Q561 (pp. 88-9).