Brill, 2003. — xvi, 344 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 46). Papers from an International Conference at St. Andrews in 2001. The International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity (St. Andrews, Scotland, 2001) gathered scholars from a wide range of specialties and perspectives from around the...
Brill, 2015. — xxvi, 985 p. Dead Sea Scrolls Handbook presents Hebrew and Aramaic transcriptions of approximately 450 non-biblical texts from Qumran, arranged according to the sequential number of the composition and the Qumran Cave. Thus, the texts are arranged as follows: 1Q14, 1QpHab, 1Q15, 1Q16, 1Q17, and so forth. This arrangement provides straightforward access to the...
Penguin Books, 2004. — 716 p. A popular publication in the English-speaking world of translations of the so-called “Dead Sea Scrolls” or “Qumran Manuscripts,” named after the place where they were discovered. Scrolls accidentally discovered by Bedouins in several small caves became a real sensation in the scientific community. Work to publish the manuscripts, which began after...
Brill, 2016. — 259 p. — (Publications of Museum of the Bible 1). This volume contains thirteen previously unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, twelve Hebrew Bible fragments and one non-biblical fragment, presented with the full scholarly apparatus and advanced reconstruction techniques. The books from the Hebrew Bible are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Jeremiah,...
Brill, 2022. — 296 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 136). Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end in the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as in other ancient texts. The present book augments these methods to a full-scale protocol while adapting them...
Brill, 2023. — 200 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 143). Beyond the Limits of Wisdom. Redefining the Sage. Continuous Study. The Dynamics of Revelation. Rāz Nihyeh.
Brill, 2014. — 436 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 110). — ISBN: 9789004276918 9789004277113. Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman’s guilt for the expulsion from the Garden and human’s calamities and the legal ramifications of her lower social and legal status...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002. — 284 p. The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most interesting and important archaeological discoveries ever made, and the excavation of the Qumran community itself has provided invaluable information about Judaism and the Jewish world in the last centuries B.C.E. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, however, the Qumran site continues to be the...
(Lives of Great Religious Books). Princeton University Press. 2012 - 288 p. Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Jesus,...
Photographic reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll, 2010. - 54 p. The Isaiah Scroll, designated 1Qlsa a, and also known as the Great Isaiah Scroll, is one of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls that were first recovered by Bedouins in 1947 from Qumran Cave 1. The scroll is written in Hebrew and contains the entire Book of Isaiah from beginning to end, apart from a few small damaged...
Leiden; New York; Köln: Brill, 1999. — 1386 p. This book is intended as a practical tool to facilitate access to the Qumran collection of Dead Sea Scrolls. As such, it is primarily intended for classroom use and for the benefit of specialists from other disciplines (scholars working on the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament or Rabbinic literature, specialists on Semitic languages,...
Eerdmans, 2000. - 180 p. - (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature). Revealing insights on the religious views of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls have profoundly changed the way we think about the Bible. But what is the religion found in the Scrolls themselves' This book provides a much-needed assessment of several major aspects of the religion of the...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1991. - 173 p. - (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 9). Revealing insights on the religious views of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls have profoundly changed the way we think about the Bible. But what is the religion found in the Scrolls themselves' This book provides a much-needed assessment of several major...
Oxford University Press, 2014. - 768 p. In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the first discovery. That occasion was marked...
Eerdmans, 2010. — 313 p. John J. Collins here offers an up-to-date review of Jewish messianic expectations around the time of Jesus, in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls.He breaks these expectations down into categories: Davidic, priestly, and prophetic. Based on a small number of prophetic oracles and reflected in the various titles and names assigned to the messiah, the Davidic...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. - 457 p. - (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 157). This volume includes papers on different topics of textual criticism of the Bible, history of the Hebrew text and the Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls studies, contributed by friends and colleagues of Julio Trebolle Barrera to honour him on the occasion of his 65th birthday....
Brill, 2015. - 346 p. - (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 169) Eugene Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible the comprehensive and synthesized picture he has gained as editor of many biblical scrolls. His earlier volume, The Biblical Qumran Scrolls, presented the evidence — the transcriptions and textual variants of all the...
The Dead Sea Scrolls — Discovery and Meaning by Hershel Shanks,revised edition, Biblical Archaeology society (The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) was founded in 1974 as a nonprofit, nondenominational, educational organization dedicated to the dissemination of information about archaeology in the Bible lands.)
Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2008. — 273 p. As father of all humanity and not exclusively of Israel, Noah was a problematic ancestor for some Jews in the Second Temple period. His archetypical portrayals in the Dead Sea Scrolls, differently nuanced in Hebrew and Aramaic, embodied the tensions for groups that were struggling to understand both their distinctive...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — xvi+490. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 115). This volume is a collection of essays written in honour of Martin G. Abegg from a range of contributors with expertise in Second Temple Jewish literature in reflection upon Prof. Abegg’s work. These essays are arranged according to four topics that deal with various aspects of text,...
Walter De Gruyter Inc., 2014. — 383 p. Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are texts which rewrite the Hebrew Bible. They differ from the literary products of the Qumran ascetic community by missing the sectarian particular style and terminology. These rewritten Bible texts may therefore shed light on the origins and sources of this community. Most of the scholarly attention has been...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 152 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Everyone has heard of of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but amidst the conspiracies, the politics, and the sensational claims, it can be difficult to separate myth from reality. Here, Timothy Lim explores the cultural and historical background of the scrolls, and examines their significance for our understanding of...
Baylor University Press, 2006. — 1598 p. — ISBN: 1932792341. The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three volumes, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of...