Ruth A. Clements, Th.D (1997), Harvard University Divinity School, is Chief of Publications at the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, and co-author of The Orion Center Bibliography of the Dead Sea Scrolls.Daniel R. Schwartz is a professor of ancient Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on ancient Jewish historiography. His most recent book is the volume on 2 Maccabees in the series Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature.

'This volume appears as a good representative of the "third stage" in the study of the relationship between the scrolls and the New Testament, and definitely deserves the attention of scholars of Second Temple Judaism and New Testament alike.'H. Debel, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

• Contributors include: Gary A. Anderson, Harold W. Attridge, Markus Bockmuehl, George J. Brooke, Jörg Frey, Menahem Kister, Israel Knohl, Hermann Lichtenberger, Eyal Regev, Adele Reinhartz, Serge Ruzer, Daniel R. Schwartz, and Cana Werman.