Mladen Popović, Ph.D. (2006) in Theology and Religious Studies, is Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Early Judaism at the University of Groningen and Director of the Qumran Institute. He is the author of Reading the Human Body (Brill, 2007).

‘In sum, this fine collection of essays paints a representative picture of the state of the debates on the authoritativeness of Second Temple Jewish texts at the time of the completion of the publication endeavour of the Dead Sea Scrolls.‘‘Therefore, this volume is to be recommended to biblical scholars of Old and New Testament alike, and to students of Second Temple Judaism and its literature in particular.’H. Debel Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 87/1 2011

• Contributors include: Florentino García Martínez, George J. Brooke, Arie van der Kooij, Emanuel Tov, Julio Trebolle, Émile Puech, Michael A. Knibb, Eibert Tigchelaar, Albert L.A. Hogeterp, Charlotte Hempel, John J. Collins, Mladen Popović, Hindy Najman, George H. van Kooten, Tobias Nicklas, and Jan N. Bremmer