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Courtyards of the House of the Lord
Studies on the Temple Scroll
Inbunden, 2008
3391 kr
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Already before its publication, it was clear that the Temple Scroll represented a major contribution to the history of Jewish law in Late Antiquity. The present volume brings together the author’s studies on this important scroll. He has sought to uncover the hermeneutics of the Zadokite/Sadducean …
Scriptural Allusions and Exegesis in the Hodayot
Av Julie Hughes
Inbunden, 2006
2600 kr
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It has long been noted that the Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot) from Qumran make extensive use of biblical language. A premise of this study of their use of scripture is that these compositions can best be understood by reading them as poetry. Using insights from the fields of comparative literature …
Relationship between Roman and Local Law in the Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives
General Analysis and Three Case Studies on Law of Succession, Guardianship and Marriage
Inbunden, 2007
3764 kr
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The discovery of the Babatha archive provided scholars with unique opportunities for reconstructing the life of Jews in second-century Arabia. Although legal issues and especially the question of the relationship between Roman and local law have received attention in a number of publications, this …
Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7–9 January, 2003
Inbunden, 2006
3201 kr
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The studies in this volume examine the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls with early rabbinic literature. This is a particularly rich area for comparative study, which has not heretofore received sufficient scholarly attention. While some of the contributions in this volume focus on specific …
Qumranica Minora I
Qumran Origins and Apocalypticism
Av Florentino García Martínez, Tigchelaar
Inbunden, 2007
3665 kr
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Qumranica Minora I: Qumran Origins and Apocalypticism brings together the author’s much discussed articles on the so-called “Groningen Hypothesis” (an hypothesis about the origins of the Qumran Community in relation to the parent Essene movement and Palestinian apocalyptic movements), as well as a …
Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Av Ian Werrett
Inbunden, 2007
3078 kr
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This book represents the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran. Utilizing an independent approach to the relevant documents from Qumran, this study discusses the primary and secondary literature …
Qumranica Minora II
Thematic Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Av Florentino García Martínez, Tigchelaar
Inbunden, 2007
3385 kr
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Qumranica Minora II: Thematic Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls brings together fourteen previously published studies of Florentino García Martínez on a variety of thematic topics from the Dead Sea Scrolls, including English translations of essays that were hitherto only available in French or …
Reading the Human Body
Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman Period Judaism
Inbunden, 2007
2591 kr
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This study deals with physiognomic and astrological texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls that represent one of the earliest examples of ancient Jewish science. For the first time the Hebrew physiognomic-astrological list 4Q186 (4QZodiacal Physiognomy) and the Aramaic physiognomic list 4Q561 …
Mediating the Divine
Prophecy and Revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism
Av Alex Jassen
Inbunden, 2007
3769 kr
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This book is a comprehensive treatment of prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It begins by analyzing the re-presentation of the classical prophets and their revelatory experience in an attempt to identify how prophecy and revelation was reconceptualized in the Dead Sea Scrolls in …
Conservatism and Innovation in the Hebrew Language of the Hellenistic Period
Proceedings of a Fourth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira
Av Jan Joosten, Jean-Sébastien Rey
Inbunden, 2007
2466 kr
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This volume contains 15 contributions presented at a symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira, held in Strasbourg on May 29 and 30, 2006. The papers address linguistic and philological issues. They seek to relate the Hebrew texts of the Hellenistic period to earlier and later …
Dead Sea Scrolls
Texts and Context
Inbunden, 2010
3939 kr
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This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the same title held at the University of Birmingham in 2007. The contributors are drawn from the ranks of leading international specialists in the field writing alongside promising younger scholars. The volume includes studies …
Civic Ideology, Organization, and Law in the Rule Scrolls
A Comparative Study of the Covenanters' Sect and Contemporary Voluntary Associations in Political Context
Inbunden, 2011
4082 kr
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Over the past sixty years, several studies have demonstrated that the Dead Sea Scrolls sect was one of numerous voluntary associations that flourished in the Hellenistic-Roman age. Yet the origins of organizational and regulatory patterns that the sect shared with other associations have not been …
From Qumran to the Yaḥad
A New Paradigm of Textual Development for The Community Rule
Inbunden, 2008
3012 kr
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Since the discovery of the Cave 4 versions of The Community Rule (Serekh ha-Yaḥad or S), scholars have been perplexed about its complex textual history. This important charter material for the Dead Sea Scrolls’ authors appears in alternate versions—ones with contradictory legal prescriptions and …
Head of All Years
Astronomy and Calendars at Qumran in their Ancient Context
Inbunden, 2008
2489 kr
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Rather than being an isolated, primitive body of knowledge the Jewish calendar tradition of 364 days constituted an integral part of the astronomical science of the ancient world. This tradition—attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Pseudepigrapha—stands out as a coherent, novel synthesis, …
Copper Scroll Revisited
Av Emile Puech
Inbunden, 2015
2030 kr
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This book is the English translation of the new edition of the Copper Scroll of Qumran Cave 3 (3Q15). The restoration of the three sheets of copper by the Mécénat of the French Electric Company (EDF) in the 1990s made an improved decipherment possible. The physical restoration of the complete …
Northern Lights on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Proceedings of the Nordic Qumran Network 2003-2006
Inbunden, 2009
2648 kr
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Structured by four important themes, the book discusses various aspects pertaining to the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first theme is comprised by a number of essays that deal with different aspects of textual interpretation of particular Qumran writings. The second theme centers on …
Expectations of the End
A Comparative Traditio-Historical Study of Eschatological, Apocalyptic and Messianic Ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament
Inbunden, 2009
4017 kr
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Since a fuller range of Qumran sectarian and not clearly sectarian texts and recensions has recently become available to us, its implications for the comparative study of eschatological, apocalyptic and messianic ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament need to be explored anew. This …
Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity
Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 11-13 January, 2004
Av Ruth Clements, Daniel R. Schwartz
Inbunden, 2009
2948 kr
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The 13 papers comprising this volume represent the fruits of the first Orion Center Symposium devoted to the comparison of the Dead Sea and early Christian texts. The authors reject the older paradigm which configured the similarities between Qumran and early Christian literature as evidence of …
Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament
Inbunden, 2009
2884 kr
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In spite of the amount of literature on the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, no consensus among the scholars has emerged as yet on how to explain both the similarities and the differences among the two corpora of religious writings. This volume contains a revised …
New Perspectives on Old Texts
Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9–11 January, 2005
Av Esther G. Chazon, Betsy Halpern-Amaru m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2464 kr
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This volume presents new perspectives on the ancient texts discovered at Qumran. The essays offer fresh insights into particular texts and genres, by applying methods and constructs drawn from other disciplines to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and by exploring new as well as long-standing …
Dead Sea Scrolls at 60
Scholarly Contributions of New York University Faculty and Alumni
Av Lawrence Schiffman, Shani Tzoref
Inbunden, 2010
2844 kr
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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the March 7, 2008 Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies at New York University, dedicated to "The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni." These studies offer a sampling of the extensive research conducted by three …
Qumran Cave 1 Revisited
Texts from Cave 1 Sixty Years after Their Discovery: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the IOQS in Ljubljana
Av Daniel K. Falk, Sarianna Metso m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2596 kr
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This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the sixth meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, held in 2007 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the topic “Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Reconsidering the Cave 1 Texts Sixty Years after Their Discovery.” While the opening paper …
Dead Sea Scrolls
Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts
Av Sarianna Metso, Hindy Najman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2518 kr
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How were Jewish texts produced and transmitted in late antiquity? What role did scribal practices play in the shaping of both scriptural and interpretive traditions, which are—as the Scrolls show so decisively—intimately intertwined? How were texts assembled from a variety of earlier sources, both …
Aramaica Qumranica
Proceedings of the Conference on the Aramaic Texts from Qumran in Aix-en-Provence 30 June - 2 July 2008
Av Katell Berthelot, Daniel St Kl Ben Ezra
Inbunden, 2010
4291 kr
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The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls represent roughly 13% of the Qumran library and correspond to a wide range of genres and topics. This book consists of the proceedings of a conference on the Aramaic scrolls from Qumran which took place in Aix-en-Provence in 2008. It includes both the papers themselves …
Rethinking Rewritten Scripture
Composition and Exegesis in the 4QReworked Pentateuch Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2011
2570 kr
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The Qumran discoveries have demonstrated that much of the earliest interpretation of Hebrew Scripture was accomplished through rewriting: production of revised editions of biblical books, or composition of new works drawing heavily upon Scripture for their organization and content. This study …
Mermaid and the Partridge
Essays from the Copenhagen Conference on Revising Texts from Cave Four
Av George Brooke, Jesper Høgenhaven
Inbunden, 2011
2540 kr
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For some years a project has been under way to carry out a thoroughgoing revision of volume V in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (of Jordan). The team of scholars responsible for the new edition - including many who have written monographs or extensive studies on the respective …
New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 9–11 January, 2007
Av Gary A. Anderson, Ruth Clements m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2870 kr
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2007 marked the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls. The 11th International Orion Symposium (January, 2007), “New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity,” provided a measure of the ways in which the …
Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective
A History of Research
Inbunden, 2012
4603 kr
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The volume consists of 27 surveys of research into the Dead Sea Scrolls in the past 60 years, written by 26 authors. An innovation of the volume is that it covers Qumran scholarship in separate countries: the USA, Canada, Israel, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Italy and the …
Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature
Essays in Honor of Eileen Schuller on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday
Av Jeremy Penner, Ken Penner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
3300 kr
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The last major volume of articles devoted to the topic of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls comprised a collection of articles presented at a conference in the year 2000 (Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls). This collection reflects the state of …
Challenges to Conventional Opinions on Qumran and Enoch Issues
Av Paul Heger
Inbunden, 2011
3229 kr
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Some literary expressions in the Dead Sea Scrolls led scholars to allege that their authors professed a dualistic and deterministic worldview of Zoroastrian origin and that the omission of Moses and Sinai from the Enoch writings evinces that a segment in Jewish society marginalized the Torah, …
