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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Timothy H Lim; John Joseph Collins |
| ISBN: | 9780199207237 0199207232 |
| OCLC Number: | 606774425 |
| Description: | xviii, 785 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Current issues in Dead Sea Scrolls research / Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins -- Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran and the Judaean wilderness -- Khirbet Qumran and its environs / Eric M. Meyers -- The Qumran Cemetery reassessed / Rachel Hachlili -- The scrolls and Jewish history -- Constructing ancient Judaism from the Scrolls / Martin Goodman -- The origins and history of the teacher's movement / Michael O. Wise -- Women in Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Tal Ilan -- The Scrolls and sectarianism -- Sectarian communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins -- The classical sources of the Essenes and the Scrolls communities / Joan E. Taylor -- Sociological approaches to Qumran sectarianism / Jutta Jokiranta -- Qumran calendars and sectarianism / Sacha Stern -- The Book of Enoch and the Qumran Scrolls / James C. VanderKam -- The biblical texts, interpretation, and languages of the Scrolls -- Assessing the text-critical theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran / Ronald S. Hendel -- Authoritative scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Timothy H. Lim -- Rewritten scripture / Molly M. Zahn -- The continuity of biblical interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic literature / Bilhah Nitzan -- Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls / Jan Joosten -- Religious themes in the scrolls -- Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jonathan Klawans -- Apocalypticism and Messianism / Michael A. Knibb -- Exploring the mystical background of the Dead Sea Scrolls / James R. Davila -- Wisdom literature and thought in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Armin Lange -- Iranian connections in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Albert De Jong -- Was the Dead Sea Sect a penitential movement? / David Lambert -- The scrolls and early Christianity -- Critical issues in the investigation of the Scrolls and the New Testament / Jörg Frey -- Monotheism, principal angels, and the background of Christology / L.W. Hurtado -- Shared exegetical traditions between the Scrolls and the New Testament / George J. Brooke -- The Scrolls and later Judaism -- Halakhah between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic literature / Aaron Shemesh -- The contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the study of ancient Jewish liturgy / Daniel K. Falk -- Reviewing the links between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah / Stefan C. Reif -- New approaches to the Scrolls -- Rhetorical criticism and the reading of the Qumran Scrolls / Carol A. Newsom -- Roland Barthes and the teacher of righteousness : the death of the author of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Maxine L. Grossman -- The Scrolls and the legal definition of authorship / Hector L. MacQueen. |
| Series Title: | Oxford handbooks. |
| Other Titles: | Dead Sea Scrolls |
| Responsibility: | edited by Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins. |
Abstract:
Thirty international scholars probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays engage with the lively debate continues over the archaeology and history of the site, the
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