This second and revised edition of the Dead Sea Scolls Reader forms an updated and expanded publication, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition, 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.