The Dead Sea scrolls and contemporary culture
Subtitle: proceedings of the international conference held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (July 6-8, 2008)
By: edited by Adolfo D. Roitman, Lawrence H. Schiffman and Shani Tzoref
Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah -- . 93
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 770
ISBN-13: 9789004185937
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Relation to the New Testament; Qumran community; Bible; Women (Jewish law); Dead Sea scrolls; History and criticism; Criticism, interpretation, ect; Congresses; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Some thoughts at the close of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Publication Project / Emanuel Tov; title: The Groningen hypothesis revisited / Florentino Garcia Martinez; title: 1QS 6:2c-4a; title: satellites or precursors of the Yaḥad? /  Charlotte Hempel; title: What kind of sect was the Yaḥad?: a comparative approach / Eyal Regev; title: The pre-history of the Qumran community with a reassessment of CD 1:5-11 / James C. Vanderkam; title: The Elohistic psalter and the writing of divine names at Qumran / Jonathan Ben-Dov; title: Non-Masoretic variant readings in the Hebrew University Isaiah scroll (1QIsab) and the text to be translated / Peter W. Flint; title: Clearer insight into the development of the Bible; title: a gift of the scrolls / Eugene Ulrich; title: Biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea scrolls: looking back and looking ahead / Moshe J. Bernstein; title: Revelation and perspicacity in Qumran hermeneutics? / James H. Charlesworth; title: The Genesis apocryphon: a chain of traditions / Esther Eshel; title: From paratext to commentary / Armin Lange; title: Enochic Judaism: an assessment / John J. Collins; title: Between Qumran sectarian and non-sectarian texts: the case of Belial and Mastema / Devorah Dimant; title: Which is older, Jubilees or the Genesis apocryphon?: an exegetical approach / James Kugel; title: Pseudepigraphy and first person discourse in the Dead Sea documents: from the Aramaic texts to writings of the Yaḥad / Loren Stuckenbruck; title: Ritual purity / Hannah K. Harrington; title: Dogs and chickens at Qumran / Jodi Magness; title: Creative interpretation and integrative interpretation in Qumran / Vered Noam; title: The price of mediation: the role of priests in the priestly halakhah / Cana Werman; title: From Jesus to the early Christian communities: modes of sectarianism in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls / George J. Brooke; title: The Gabriel revelation / Israel Knohl; title: Nascent Christianity between sectarian and broader Judaism: lessons from the Dead Sea scrolls / Serge Ruzer; title: Rethinking gender in the community rule: an experiment in sociology / Maxine L. Grossman; title: Canonization and Gender in Qumran: 4Q179, 4Q184, 2Q18 and 11QPsalmsa / Tal Ilan; title: Laws pertaining to women and sexuality in the early stratum of the Damascus document / Lawrence H. Schiffman; title: Women in the Dead Sea scrolls: research in the past decade and future directions / Eileen Schuller; title: Marriage and marital life in the Dead Sea scrolls / Aharon Shemesh; title: Karaites, Qumran, the calendar, and beyond: at the beginning of the wwenty-first century / Albert I. Baumgarten; title: The Dead Sea scrolls, Hebrew Union College, and Reform Judaism 1948-2008 / Richard Freund; title: Interpretive circles: the case of the Dead Sea scrolls / Edna Ullmann Margalit; title: The Dead Sea scrolls online: taking on a (second) life of their own / Susan Hazan; title: The Second Temple Period Multimedia Educational Suite with an appendix on the ceramic and numismatic evidence for Qumran's Period Ia / Stephen Pfann Jr.; with an appendix by Stephen J. Pfann; title: The quest for new strategies in teaching and popularizing the Dead Sea scrolls / Adolfo Roitman.