The Oxford handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls
By: edited by Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins
Series: Oxford handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 785
ISBN-13: 9780199207237
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls
Other titles: Dead Sea Scrolls
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Current issues in Dead Sea Scrolls research  -- Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins; title: Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran and the Judaean wilderness --; title: Khirbet Qumran and its environs  -- Eric M. Meyers; title: The Qumran Cemetery reassessed  -- Rachel Hachlili; title: The scrolls and Jewish history --; title: Constructing ancient Judaism from the Scrolls  -- Martin Goodman; title: The origins and history of the teacher's movement  -- Michael O. Wise; title: Women in Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- Tal Ilan; title: The Scrolls and sectarianism --; title: Sectarian communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- John J. Collins; title: The classical sources of the Essenes and the Scrolls communities  -- Joan E. Taylor; title: Sociological approaches to Qumran sectarianism  -- Jutta Jokiranta; title: Qumran calendars and sectarianism  -- Sacha Stern; title: The Book of Enoch and the Qumran Scrolls  -- James C. VanderKam; title: The biblical texts, interpretation, and languages of the Scrolls --; title: Assessing the text-critical theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran  -- Ronald S. Hendel; title: Authoritative scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- Timothy H. Lim; title: Rewritten scripture  -- Molly M. Zahn; title: The continuity of biblical interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic literature  -- Bilhah Nitzan; title: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls  -- Jan Joosten; title: Religious themes in the scrolls --; title: Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- Jonathan Klawans; title: Apocalypticism and Messianism  -- Michael A. Knibb; title: Exploring the mystical background of the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- James R. Davila; title: Wisdom literature and thought in the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- Armin Lange; title: Iranian connections in the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- Albert De Jong; title: Was the Dead Sea Sect a penitential movement?  -- David Lambert; title: The scrolls and early Christianity --; title: Critical issues in the investigation of the Scrolls and the New Testament  -- Jörg Frey; title: Monotheism, principal angels, and the background of Christology  -- L.W. Hurtado; title: Shared exegetical traditions between the Scrolls and the New Testament  -- George J. Brooke; title: The Scrolls and later Judaism --; title: Halakhah between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic literature  -- Aaron Shemesh; title: The contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the study of ancient Jewish liturgy  -- Daniel K. Falk; title: Reviewing the links between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah  -- Stefan C. Reif; title: New approaches to the Scrolls --; title: Rhetorical criticism and the reading of the Qumran Scrolls  -- Carol A. Newsom; title: Roland Barthes and the teacher of righteousness :  the death of the author of the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- Maxine L. Grossman; title: The Scrolls and the legal definition of authorship -- Hector L. MacQueen.