New perspectives on old texts
Subtitle: proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11January, 2005
By: edited by Esther G. Chazon, Betsy Halpern-Amaru in collaboration with Ruth A. Clements
Contributors: Chazon, Esther G.; Amaru, Betsy Halpern; Clements, Ruth
Series: Studies on the texts of the Desert of Judah -- v. 88
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9789004183070
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exile and self-identity in the Qumran sect and in Hellenistic Judaism / Noah Hacham; title: The legacy of the Teacher of Righteousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls /  Loren T. Stuckenbruck; title: Ritual density in Qumran practice: ablutions in the Serekh ha-Yah? / Michael A. Daise; title: From Enoch to John the Essene; title: an analysis of sect development: 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Essenes / Eyal Regev; title: Education and wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls in light of their background in   antiquity / Bilhah Nitzan; title: The use of Scripture in 1Q/4Q mysteries / Torleif Elgvin; title: "Memory and manuscript": books, scrolls, and the tradition of the Qumran texts / Lawrence H. Schiffman; title: The wood-offering: the convoluted evolution of a halakhah in Qumran and rabbinic law / Cana Werman; title: Further reflections on a divine and angelic humanity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis; title: The polemic against the Tevul Yom: a reexamination / Martha Himmelfarb; title: Qumran and the genealogy of Western mysticism / Philip S. Alexander.