The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the concept of a library
By: edited by Sidnie White Crawford, Cecilia Wassen
Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah -- volume 116; Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah -- v. 116.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9789004301825; 9789004305069
Subjects: Amerika Haus Berlin Video Lending Library; Dead Sea scrolls; Libraries; Bibliotek; Qumrantexte; Amerika Haus Berlin
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-321) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. General studies. The library of Qumran in recent scholarship / Devorah Dimant; title: On being a 'librarian': labels, categories, and classifications / Årstein Justnes; title: part 2. The Greco-Roman context. Greek and Roman libraries in the Hellenistic age / Monica Berti; title: The Qumran "library" and other ancient libraries: elements for a comparison / Corrado Martone; title: Is Qumran a library? / Ian Werrett; title: part 3. The collection as a whole and the question of a library. The Qumran collection as a scribal library / Sidnie White Crawford; title: The linguistic diversity of the texts found at Qumran / Stephen Reed; title: Plates; title: The ancient 'library' of Qumran between urban and rural culture / Mladen Popović; title: The ancient "library" or "libraries" of Qumran: the specter of Cave 1Q / Stephen Pfann; title: part 4. Collections within the collection: specific evidence for a "library? Calendars in the Qumran collection / Helen R. Jacobus; title: The Aramaic Dead Sea scrolls: coherence and context in the library of Qumran / Daniel A. Machiela; title: part 5. Implications for the identification of the Qumran collection as a library. The Qumran library in context: the canonical history and textual standardization of the Hebrew Bible in light of the Qumran library / Armin Lange.