The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Historical Context
edited by
Timothy H. Lim
with
Larry W. Hurtado, A. Graeme Auld, Alison Jack
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ISBN 0567080781 (paperback)
Timothy H. Lim
Part I The Qumran Community, Essenes and other Sects
1. The Dead Sea Sect and other Jews: Commonalities, Overlaps and Differences
E.P. Sanders
2. The Wicked Priest or the Liar?
Timothy H. Lim
3. What Did You Go Out to See? John the Baptist, the Scrolls and Late Second Temple Judaism
J. Ian H. McDonald
Part II The Qumran Biblical Texts and the Masoretic Text
4. The Qumran Biblical Scrolls—the Scriptures of Late Second Temple Judaism
Eugene C. Ulrich
5. Qumran Evidence for a Biblical Standard Text and for Non-Standard and Parabiblical Texts
Julio Trebolle-Barrera
6. E Pluribus Unum: Textual Variety and Definitive Interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls
George J. Brooke
Part III Sectarian Law and Normative Jewish Law
7. Halakhah and Sectarianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Lawrence H. Schiffman
8. The Story of Joseph and the Book of Jubilees
Calum M. Carmichael
9. Sabbatical Chronologies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature
James C. VanderKam
10. Qumran Calendars: Theory and Practice
Sacha Stern
11. The Place of the Book of Jubilees at Qumran and Beyond
Charlotte Hempel
Part IV Theology of the Qumran Community, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
12. The Nature of Messianism in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
John J.Collins
13. Judaisms in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of the Messiah
Philip R. Davies
14. The Branch in the Last Days: Observations on the New Covenant before and after the Messiah
Håkan Ulfgard
15. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Merkavah Mysticism
James R. Davila
Graeme Auld, Professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Edinburgh, is author of Kings Without Privilege (1994) and Joshua Retold (1998), and co-author of Jerusalem I: From the Bronze Age to the Maccabees (1996). He is preparing commentaries on the Hebrew and Greek texts of Joshua, and on the standard and Qumran texts of Samuel.
George J. Brooke is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, University of Manchester, and co-director of the Manchester—Sheffield Centre for Dead Sea Scrolls Research....
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About The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Historical ContextWhat is the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and what do we know about the community that possessed them? This important work situates the Dead Sea Scrolls in their historical context of Second Temple Judaism and the rise of Early Christianity. Expert scholars address the issue in four sections: The Qumran Community; The Qumran Biblical Text and the Masoretic Text; Sectarian Law and Normative Jewish Law; and The Theology of the Qumran Community, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Avoiding both popular sensationalism and specialist technical language, this book aims to integrate all the latest findings about the scrolls into existing knowledge of the period and to advance understanding of many specific issues in Qumran studies in a scholarly and accessible way. The “state of the art” in international scrolls scholarship, this book includes contributions from E. P. Sanders, J. Ian MacDonald, Eugene C. Ulrich, Julio Trebolle Barrera, George J. Brooke, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Calum Carmichael, James C. VanderKam, Sacha Stern, Charlotte Hempel, John J. Collins, Philip R. Davies, Hakan Ulfgard and James C. Davila. |
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