This is volume 1 of a two volume set, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition. This volume contains Texts concerned with Religious Law, Exegetical Texts and Parabiblical Texts.

This second and revised edition of the Dead Sea Scollr Reader forms an updated and expanded publication, as follows:
- DSSR II Replaces Preliminary Editions of DSSR I with fine-tuned, published editions.
- DSSR II Presents Improved or Revised Texts
- DSSR II Features Texts Not Published in DSSR I.
- DSSR II Reassembles Segmented Texts.
- DSSR II Deletes Extremely Fragmentary Texts.
- DSSR II Updates Names of Compositions.
- Quotations in Pesharim and Commentaries.
- Indecipherable Words/Single Letters.