The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research
Biographical note
Devorah Dimant, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew Univerity in Jerusalem, Professor (em.) for Ancient Jewish Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel. Has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. She has produced first editions of several Qumran scrolls in Qumran Cave 4.XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXX; Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2001) .
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All those interested in Qumran scrolls, both academic and general public. Especially suitable as introductory volume for general academic readership and thus of immediate interest to institutes, academic libraries, public libraries, specialists and students.
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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.
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A timely collection of contributions by major scholars in the field of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in July 2008 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
€105.00$146.00
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.
€165.00$229.00
This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Birmingham in 2007 and offers an up to date assessment of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the material remains unearthed at Qumran by leading international specialists.
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