Esther G. Chazon is Head of the Academic Committee of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published extensively on liturgy and Qumran.Betsy Halpern-Amaru is Professor of Religion, Emeritus at Vassar College. She has authored Rewriting the Bible: Land and Covenant in Postbiblical Jewish Literature and The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees, and is currently completing a book on Exodus and the Book of Jubilees.Ruth A. Clements is Chief of Publications for the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, co-author of The Orion Center Bibliography (2000–2006), and co-editor of Text,Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity.

• NEW APPROACHES,Exile and Self-Identity in the Qumran Sect and in Hellenistic JudaismNOAH HACHAMThe Legacy of the Teacher of Righteousness in the Dead Sea ScrollsLOREN T. STUCKENBRUCKRitual Density in Qumran Practice: Ablutions in the Serekh Ha-YaḥadMICHAEL A. DAISEFrom Enoch to John the Essene: An Analysis of Sectarian Development in 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the EssenesEYAL REGEVINNOVATIVE READINGSEducation and Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls in Light of their Background in AntiquityBILHAH NITZANThe Use of Scripture in 1Q/4QMysteriesTORLEIF ELGVINMemory and Manuscript: Books, Scrolls and the Tradition of the Dead Sea ScrollsLAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMANThe Wood-Offering: The Evolution of a Halakhah in Qumran and Rabbinic LawCANA WERMANREASSESSING OLD PERSPECTIVESFurther Reflections on a Divine and Angelic Humanity in the Dead Sea ScrollsCRISPIN H. T. FLETCHER-LOUISThe Polemic against the Tevul Yom: A ReexaminationMARTHA HIMMELFARBQumran and the Genealogy of Western MysticismPHILIP S. ALEXANDERIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of Ancient Sources