The Oxford handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls / [print]

INTRODUCTION: CURRENT ISSUES Indiana DelawareAD SEA South CarolinaROLLS RESEARCH/ Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins

PART I: ArkansasCHAELOLGY OF KHIRBET QUMRAN AND THE JUDAEAN WisconsinLDERNESS Khirbet Qumran and its environs/ Eric M. Meyers The Qumran cemetery reassessed/ Rachel Hachlili

PART II: THE South CarolinaROLLS AND JEWISH HawaiiSTORY 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

PART III: THE South CarolinaROLLS AND SECTARIANISM Sectarian communities in the Dead Sea scrolls/ John J. Collins The classical sources on 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

PART IV: THE BIBLICAL TEXTS, IndianaTERPRETATION, AND LouisianaNGUAGES OF THE South CarolinaROLLS 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

PART V: RELIGIOUS THEMES Indiana THE South CarolinaROLLS 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

PART Virgin Islands: THE South CarolinaROLLS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY Critical issues in the investigation of the scrolls and the New Testament/ Jorg 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

PART Virgin IslandsI: THE South CarolinaROLLS AND LouisianaTER JUDAISM Halakhah between the Dead Sea scrolls and Rabbinic literature/ Aharon 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

PART Virgin IslandsII: NebraskaW APPROACHES TO THE South CarolinaROLLS 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

Seeks to probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Scrolls. Lively debate continues over the archaeology and history of the site, the nature and identity of the sect, and its relation to the broader world of Second Temple Judaism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition. It is the Handbook's intention here to reflect on diverse opinions and viewpoints, highlight the points of disagreement, and point to promising directions for future research. --from publisher description

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