The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the concept of a library / edited by Sidnie White Crawford, Cecilia Wassen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawford, Sidnie White, editor.

Wassen, Cecilia, 1962- editor.

Series:

Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 116.

Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 0169-9962 ; Volume 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library presents twelve articles by renowned experts in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies. These articles explore from various angles the question of whether or not the collection of manuscripts found in the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran can be characterized as a “library,” and, if so, what the relation of that library is to the ruins of Qumran and the group of Jews that inhabited them. The essays fall into the following categories: the collection as a whole, subcollections within the overall corpus, and the implications of identifying the Qumran collection as a library.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Sidnie White Crawford and Cecilia Wassen

The Library of Qumran in Recent Scholarship / Devorah Dimant

On Being a ‘Librarian’: Labels, Categories, and Classifications / Årstein Justnes

Greek and Roman Libraries in the Hellenistic Age / Monica Berti

The Qumran “Library” and Other Ancient Libraries: Elements for a Comparison / Corrado Martone

Is Qumran a Library? / Ian Werrett

The Qumran Collection as a Scribal Library / Sidnie White Crawford

The Linguistic Diversity of the Texts Found at Qumran / Stephen Reed

Plates

The Ancient ‘Library’ of Qumran between Urban and Rural Culture / Mladen Popović

The Ancient “Library” or “Libraries” of Qumran: The Specter of Cave 1Q / Stephen Pfann

Calendars in the Qumran Collection / Helen R. Jacobus

The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: Coherence and Context in the Library of Qumran / Daniel A. Machiela

The Qumran Library in Context: The Canonical History and Textual Standardization of the Hebrew Bible in Light of the Qumran Library / Armin Lange

Bibliography

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Biblical Literature

Index of Texts from the Judean Desert

Index of Other Ancient Sources.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30506-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004305069 DOI