Thirty international scholars probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays engage with the 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 Jewishand Christian tradition. INDICE: Preface; Introduction: Current Issues in Dead Sea Scrolls Research; I: Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran and the Judaean Wilderness; 1: Eric Meyers: Khirbet Qumran and its Environs; 2: Rachel Hachlili: The Qumran Cemetery Reassessed; II: The Scrolls and Jewish History; 3: Martin D. Goodman: Constructing Ancient Judaism from the Scrolls; 4: Michael O. Wise: The Origins and History of the Teacher's Movement; 5: Tal Ilan: Women in Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls; III: The Scrolls and Sectarianism; 6: John J. Collins: Sectarian Communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls; 7: Joan E. Taylor: The Classical Sources on the Essenes and the Scrolls Communities; 8: Jutta Jokiranta: Sociological Approaches to Qumran Sectarianism; 9: Sacha Stern: Qumran Calendars and Sectarianism; 10: James C. VanderKam: The Book of Enoch and the Qumran Scrolls; IV: The Biblical Texts, Interpretation and Languages of the; 11: Ronald S. Hendel: Assessing the Text-Critical theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran; 12: Timothy H. Lim: Authoritative Scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls; 13: Molly Zahn: TheRewritten Scriptures; 14: Bilha Nitzan: The Continuity of Biblical Interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature; 15: Jan Joosten: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls; Religious Themes in the Scrolls; 16: Jonathan Klawans: Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls; 17: Michael Knibb: Apocalypticism and Messianism; 18: James R. Davila: Exploring the Mystical Background fothe Dead Sea Scrolls; 19: Armin Lange: Wisdom Literature and Thought in the Dead Sea Scrolls; 20: Albert de Jong: Iranian Connections in the Dead Sea Scrolls; 21: David Lambert: Was the Dead Sea Sect a Pentitential Movement?; VI: TheScrolls and Early Christianity; 22: Jörg Frey: Critical Issues in the Investigation of the Scrolls and the New Testament; 23: Larry Hurtado: Monotheism, Principal Angels, and the Background of Christology; 24: George J. Brooke: Shared Exegetical Traditions between the Scrolls and the New Testament; The Scrollsand Later Judaism; 25: Aharon Shemesh: Halakha between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature; 26: Daniel Falk: The Contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the STudy of ANcient Jewish Liturgy; 27: Stefan Reif: Reviewing the Linksbetween the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah; VIII: New Approaches to the Scrolls; 28: Carol Newsom: Rhetorical Criticism and the Reading of the Qumran Scrolls; 29: Maxine Grossman: Roland Barthes and the Teacher of Righteousness; 30: Hector L. MacQueen: The Scrolls and the Legal Definition of Authorship
- ISBN: 978-0-19-920723-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 808
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés