The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xx, 770 pp., 36 illus.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Lawrence H. Schiffman is Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His latest book is Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism (Eerdmans, 2010).

Adolfo D. Roitman, PhD (1993, Jerusalem), Lizbeth and George Krupp Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. His latest book is Biblia, exégesis y religión. Una lectura crítica-histórica del judaísmo (Verbo Divino, forthcoming).

Shani Tzoref, PhD (2001), Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, is currently a Research Associate with the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. Her publications in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls and early biblical interpretation include The Pesher Nahum Scroll from Qumran (Brill 2004).

Readership

All those interested in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Judaism, Early Christianity, the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation, gender in antiquity, and contemporary education and museology pertaining to the above fields.

Contributors include: Albert I. Baumgarten, Moshe J. Bernstein, Jonathan Ben-Dov, George J. Brooke, James H. Charlesworth, John J. Collins, Devorah Dimant, Esther Eshel, Peter Flint, Richard Freund, Florentino García Martínez, Maxine L. Grossman, Hannah H. Harrington, Susan Hazan, Charlotte Hempel, Tal Ilan, Israel Knohl, James L. Kugel, Armin Lange, Jodi Magness, Vered Noam, Steven J. Pfann, Steven Pfann Jr., Eyal Regev, Adolfo Roitman, Serge Ruzer, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Eileen Schuller, Aharon Shemesh, Loren T. Stuckenbruck,Emanuel Tov, Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Eugene Ulrich, James VanderKam, Cana Werman

€112.00$156.00

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103

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ISBN13:

9789004231047

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Forthcoming Title

The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions

Edited by George J. Brooke, University of Manchester, Daniel K. Falk, University of Oregon, Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Molly M. Zahn, University of Kansas

What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the forms, transmission, canonization, and interpretation of authoritative scriptures.

€188.00$261.00

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101

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ISBN13:

9789004202863

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Forthcoming Title

Das hebräische Partizip in den Texten aus der judäischen Wüste

Gregor Geiger

This investigation studies the participle in the Hebrew manuscripts from the Judaean Desert, its formation, its usage, and its meaning, compared with those in other Hebrew traditions and dialects, especially the language of the Hebrew Bible. Diese Studie untersucht das Partizip in den ...

€143.00$196.00

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100

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ISBN13:

9789004217225

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Challenges to Conventional Opinions on Qumran and Enoch Issues

Paul Heger

The study disputes allegations of dualism and determinism in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the substitution of Enoch’s prophecies for the Mosaic Torah, which are incompatible with the biblical doctrines that dominated Jewish society in the late Second Temple period.

€199.00$273.00

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9789004208063

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The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research

Edited by Devorah Dimant

This book contains an exhaustive survey of past and present Qumran research, outlining its particular development in various circumstances and national contexts. For the first time, perspectives and information not recorded in any other publication are highlighted.

€143.00$196.00

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ISBN13:

9789004214507

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Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature

Edited by Jeremy Penner, Ken M. Penner, and Cecilia Wassen

A timely collection of contributions by major scholars in the field of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

€177.00$242.00

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ISBN13:

9789004168121

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Civic Ideology, Organization, and Law in the Rule Scrolls

Yonder Moynihan Gillihan

Using insights from modern sociology, this book argues that the organization, law, and literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls sect expressed an "alternative civic ideology" by which members claimed citizenship in a superior commonwealth that would soon replace the existing Judean state.

€110.00$151.00

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ISBN13:

9789004194304

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The Mermaid and the Partridge

Edited by George J. Brooke and Jesper Høgenhaven

This volume, which contains the papers from a conference in Copenhagen in June 2009 on the texts from DJD V, represents the ongoing work on the re-edition of these texts, and reflects the development in approaches and viewpoints since the texts were first published (1968).

€108.00$153.00

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ISBN13:

9789004193901

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Rethinking Rewritten Scripture

Molly M. Zahn

This study advances our understanding of the nature and purpose of the rewriting of Scripture in Second Temple Judaism through a comparative analysis of the compositional methods and interpretive goals of the five 4QReworked Pentateuch manuscripts (4Q158, 364–367).

€180.00$255.00

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ISBN13:

9789004187863

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Aramaica Qumranica

€105.00$146.00

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ISBN13:

9789004185845

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

Edited by Sarianna Metso, Hindy Najman and Eileen Schuller

This volume considers the transmission of interpretive traditions and the details of scribal practices. The essays explore the variety of ways that texts are interpreted at Qumran and also re-evaluates sectarian categorizations of texts along with distinctive scribal practices.