The Dead Sea scrolls : texts and context / edited by Charlotte Hempel.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hempel, Charlotte.

Conference Name:

Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Context (2007 : University of Birmingham)

Series:

Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 90.

Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 0169-9962 ; v. 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dead Sea scrolls--Congresses.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Dead Sea scrolls--4Q--Congresses.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D--Congresses.

Judaism.

Excavations (Archaeology)--West Bank--Qumran Site--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Priests, Jewish--Congresses.

Priests, Jewish.

Qumran Site (West Bank)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Qumran Site (West Bank).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the same title held at the University of Birmingham in 2007. The contributors are drawn from the ranks of leading international specialists in the field writing alongside promising younger scholars. The volume includes studies on the contribution of the Scrolls to Second Temple Jewish history, the archaeological context, the role of the temple and its priesthood, as well as treatments on selected texts and issues. These proceedings offer a timely and up to date assessment of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the material remains unearthed at Qumran in their wider context and not infrequently challenge prevailing lines of interpretation. Helen Jacobus has won the Sean Dever Memorial Prize with her contribution to this volume. Commenting on the Dever prize, Professor Carol Meyers of Duke University, North Carolina, said: “The judges thought highly of Helen’s meticulous scholarship and careful presentation of the data in her discussion of the zodiac and its role in Jewish calendars.”

Contents:

Preface / Albert Baumgarten

Introduction / Charlotte Hempel

The scrolls and the literary landscape of Second Temple Judaism / Michael E. Stone

What history can we get from the scrolls, and how? / Philip R. Davies

Gleaning of scrolls from the Judean desert / Hanan Eshel

Scrolls and hand impurity / Jodi Magness

The glass from Khirbet Qumran : what does it tell us about the Qumran community? / Dennis Mizzi

Cave 11 in context / Florentino Garcia Martinez

Further reflections on caves 1 and 11 : a response to Florentino Garcia Martinez / Daniel Stokl Ben-Ezra

Temple mysticism and the temple men / Torleif Elgvin

Priests at Qumran : a reassessment / Heinz-Josef Fabry

The Qumran sectarians and the temple in Jerusalem / Martin Goodman

The context of 4QMMT and comfortable theories / Charlotte Hempel

The centrality of the temple in 4QMMT / Hanne von Weissenberg

Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran Pesharim / George J. Brooke

Demonstrable instances of the use of sources in the Pseudepigrapha / Vered Hillel

Marriage and divorce : from social institution to Halakhic norms / Bernard S. Jackson

4Q318 : a Jewish Zodiac calendar at Qumran? / Helen R. Jacobus

Qumran and the rabbis on corpse-impurity : common exegesis : tacit problem / Vered Noam

Between two sects : differentiating the Yahad and the Damascus covenant / Eyal Regev

From Cairo Genizah to Qumran : the influence of the Zadokite fragments on the study of the Qumran scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman

Dio Chrysostom on the Essene landscape / Joan E. Taylor.

Notes:

"This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the same title held at the University of Birmingham in 2007. The contributors are drawn from the ranks of leading international specialists in the field writing alongside promising younger scholars. The volume includes studies on the contribution of the Scrolls to Second Temple Jewish history, the archaeological context, the role of the Temple and its priesthood, as well as treatments on selected texts and issues. These proceedings offer a timely and up to date assessment of the Dead Sea scrolls and the material remains unearthed at Qumran in their wider context and not infrequently challenge prevailing lines of interpretation"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94926-8

9786612949265

90-04-19076-7

OCLC:

700516982

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004167841.i-552 DOI