Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture

Travis B. Williams, Ph.D. (2011), University of Exeter, is Professor of Religion at Tusculum University. He has published numerous monographs and articles on various topics related to ancient Judaism and early Christianity, including History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge, 2019).Chris Keith, Ph.D. (2008), University of Edinburgh, is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. He serves as the editor of the Library of New Testament Studies and his most recent book is The Gospel as Manuscript: An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact (Oxford University Press, 2020).Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ph.D. (1994), Princeton Theological Seminary, is Professor of New Testament at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München. He has acted as editor for a number of journals and monograph series, and has published a number of monographs, edited nearly twenty books, and 160 articles in the areas of New Testament, Second Temple Jewish, early Christian tradition, and Ethiopian studies, including The Myth of Rebellious Angels (Mohr Siebeck and Eerdmans, 2017).

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionChris Keith2 Studies in Ancient Media Culture: An OverviewTravis B. WilliamsPart 1: Past Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media3 Textuality and the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Examination of Modern Approaches and Recent TrendsTravis B. Williams4 Is There a Spoken Voice in This Cave? Orality and the Dead Sea ScrollsShem Miller5 Ritual Studies and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A ReviewMichael DeVries and Jutta JokirantaPart 2: Present Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media6 Book Production and Circulation in Ancient Judaea: Evidenced by Writing Quality and Skills in the Dead Sea Scrolls Isaiah and Serekh ManuscriptsMladen Popović7 4Q169 (Pesher Nahum) in Its Ancient Media ContextPieter B. Hartog8 The Copper Scroll: The Medium, the Context and the ArchaeologyJoan E. Taylor9 Curated Communities: Refracted Realities at Qumran and on Social MediaCharlotte Hempel10 Orality and Written-ness in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Where Have We Got to and Where Are We Going?George J. Brooke11 Rituals as Media: Shared, Embodied, and Extended Knowledge Mediation in RitualsJutta Jokiranta12 Rations, Refreshments, Reading, and Revelation: The Multifunction of the Common Meal in the Qumran MovementCecilia WassénPart 3: Future Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media13 Mediated Textuality: Ambient Orality and the Dead Sea ScrollsMaxine L. Grossman14 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A View from New Testament StudiesChris Keith15 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Classicist’s ViewWilliam A. JohnsonIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of Ancient Sources