The Madrid Qumran Congress (2 vols.)

The Madrid Qumran Congress (2 vols.)
Author: Julio Trebolle Barrera
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004350128

The material presented in these two volumes may be divided into two main sections. The first section covers biblical texts and texts which fall between the categories biblical and non-biblical. It also includes articles on topics relating to the history of the Qumran community and to the study of the New Testament in the light of the Qumran discoveries. The second section covers non-biblical texts, such as the Temple Scroll. The two sections are synthesized in the article by Frank M. Cross, in which he reviews the advances made and the challenges for the future in the field of Qumran studies. Several topics recur constantly in many of the articles, such as the origins of the history of the Qumran community, the problem of the distinction between what is biblical and non-biblical in the Qumran manuscripts, and the question of the authority of the texts in the Qumran community.

The Dead Sea Scrolls In Context (2 vols)

The Dead Sea Scrolls In Context (2 vols)
Author: Armin Lange
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1014
Release: 2011-09-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004194207

The Dead Sea Scrolls enrich many areas of biblical research, as well as the study of ancient and rabbinic Judasim, early Christian and other ancient literatures, languages, and cultures. With nearly all Dead Sea Scrolls published, it is now time to integrate the Dead Sea Scrolls fully into the various disciplines that benefit from them. This two-volume collection of essays answers this need. It represents the proceedings of a conference jointly organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna in Vienna on February 11–14, 2008.

A Teacher for All Generations (2 vols.)

A Teacher for All Generations (2 vols.)
Author: Eric F. Mason
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1098
Release: 2011-10-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004224084

This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars—including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students—offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.

The New Damascus Document

The New Damascus Document
Author: Ben Zion Wacholder
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047406419

This volume examines twelve ancient and medieval manuscripts, ten from the caves at Qumran and the two so called Damascus Documents from the Cairo Geniza, presenting a new organization and understanding of these texts. The twelve manuscripts are in a composite form under the title Midrash haTorah haAcharon (MTA), the Midrash of the Eschatological Torah, a title which opens a new window into the understanding of the Jewish literary tradition during the period of the Second Temple, prior to the development of the Talmud and Christianity. Following the composite Hebrew text are a full translation, notes and commentary elucidating the MTA in light of the new evidence provided by these texts and retranslation.

New Qumran Texts and Studies

New Qumran Texts and Studies
Author: International Organization for Qumran Studies. Meeting
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004100930

New Qumran Texts and Studies contains eighteen papers delivered at the first meeting of the newly formed International Organization for Qumran Studies which was held in Paris in 1992. Several are detailed preliminary editions of previously unedited fragments of Bible, rewritten Bible, halakhah, and liturgy. Others show how scholars have begun to grapple with the vast amount of new information in all the texts that were released in 1991: newly available fragments are used to inform the discussion of texts in other scrolls from Qumran as well as passages of other Jewish texts and the New Testament. Yet others display how recent methodological innovations provide new ways of reading texts that have long been known.

The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity

The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity
Author: James Davila
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2018-12-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004350446

The International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity (St. Andrews, Scotland, 2001) gathered scholars from a wide range of specialties and perspectives from around the world to explore how the Scrolls contribute to our knowledge of the background of both rabbinic and noncanonical forms of Judaism, and of the origins and early development of Christianity. This volume publishes papers from the conference which deal with the Scrolls and: rabbinic literature; Christian origins; Pauline and Deutero-Pauline literature; and Jewish and Christian liturgy, mysticism, and messianism. It comprises an excellent sketch of the state of the question at the beginning of the twenty-first century and is also programmatic for future research.

The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The scrolls and Christian origins

The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The scrolls and Christian origins
Author: James H. Charlesworth
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Total Pages: 741
Release: 2006
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 193279221X

The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three volumes, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity.

Current Research and Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Current Research and Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: Ricks
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004350225

This volume of conference papers presents new discoveries, updated information, and technological advances in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Two papers examine the identity of the messiahs in 4Q246 and 4Q521. A thorough analysis of scribal markings in the Dead Sea texts is presented. Biblical studies include multiple literary editions of biblical texts, the book of Numbers at Qumran, and the appearance of the Tetragrammaton in 4QSama texts. The notions of judgment and salvation according to Sapiential Work A are thoroughly examined, and the relationship of the six Barki Nafshi texts is carefully considered. New developments in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls studies include the Dead Sea Scrolls Database and DNA studies on the scrolls themselves.

The Temple Scroll

The Temple Scroll
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004459502

In this volume, Schiffman and Gross present a new edition of all of the manuscript evidence for the Temple Scroll from Qumran. It includes innumerable new readings and restorations of all of the manuscripts as well as a detailed critical apparatus comparing the manuscripts of the Temple Scroll as well as Qumran biblical manuscripts and the ancient versions. Each manuscript is provided with a new translation, and a commentary is presented for the main text. Also included are a general introduction, bibliography of published works on the text, catalog of photographic evidence, and concordance including all vocables in all the manuscripts and their restorations. This work promises to move research on the Temple Scroll to a new level.