The Dead Sea scrolls in their historical context
By: edited by Timothy H. Lim ; with Larry W. Hurtado, A. Graeme Auld, and Alison Jack.
Contributors: Lim, Timothy H.; Hurtado, Larry W., 1943-; Auld, A. Graeme.; Jack, Alison M.; University of Edinburgh. Centre for Christian Origins.
Publisher: T & T Clark International; T&T Clark; Bloomsbury 3PL
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls -- Congresses.; Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses.; Qumran community -- Congresses.; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-292) and indexes.
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.
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.