The D ead Sea scrolls in their historical context
By: edited by Timothy H. Lim ... [et al.]
Contributors: Lim, Timothy H; University of Edinburgh. Centre for Christian Origins
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls; Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, Textual; Book of Jubilees -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Qumran community
Notes: Papers from a conference held on May 5-6, 1998, New College, Edinburgh, hosted by the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Edinburgh under the aegis of the Centre for Christian Studies. (Preface)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-292) and indexes
Table of contents: title: The Dead Sea sect and other Jews : commonalities, overlaps and differences / E. P. Sanders; title: The wicked priest or the liar? / Timothy H. Lim; title: What did you go out to see? : John the Baptist, the Scrolls and late Second Temple Judaism / J. Ian H. McDonald; title: The Qumran Biblical scrolls : the scriptures of late Second Temple Judaism / Eugene C. Ulrich; title: Qumran evidence for a Biblical standard text and for non-standard and parabiblical texts / Julio Trebolle-Barrera; title: E pluribus unum : textual variety and definitive interpretation in the Qumran scrolls / George J. Brooke; title: Halakhah and sectarianism in the Dead Sea scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman; title: The story of Joseph and the Book of jubilees / Calum M. Carmichael; title: Sabbatical chronologies in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature / James C. VanderKam; title: Qumran calendars : theory and practice / Sacha Stern; title: The place of the Book of jubilees at Qumran and beyond / Charlotte Hempel; title: The nature of messianism in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins; title: Judaisms in the Dead Sea scrolls : the case of the Messiah / Philip R. Davies; title: The branch in the last days : observations on the new covenant before and after the Messiah / Håkan Ulfgard; title: The Dead Sea scrolls and merkavah mysticism / James R. Davila