II Recent Discoveries and Bible Translation WALTER HARRELSON THE 1990s probably will not match the prior four decades in the production of new or revised English-language Bible translations. One of the reasons is that new discoveries of the magnitude of the Dead Sea Scrolls surely cannot be anticipated during the 1990s—although of course in the 1940s no one expected that a discovery of such magnitude was about to generate the fresh impetus to textual studies that followed in the wake of the scrolls’