The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Volumes 1-3
Edited by James H. Charlesworth
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Subjects: All Biblical Studies, Extracanonical Literature |
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 the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity.
Book 1
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Preface: The New Perspective on Second Temple Judaism and “Christian Origins”
James H. Charlesworth
Introduction: The Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Discovery and Challenge to Biblical Studies
James H. Charlesworth
Chapter 1: The Impact of the Judean Desert Scrolls on Issues of Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible
James A. Sanders
Chapter 2: Qumran and the Enoch Groups: Revisiting the Enochic-Essene Hypothesis
Gabriele Boccaccini
Chapter 3: The Biblical Scrolls from Qumran and the Canonical Text
Frank Moore Cross
Chapter 4: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Scriptural Texts
Eugene C. Ulrich
Chapter 5: The Formation and Re-Formation of Daniel in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Chapter 6: The Rewritten Bible at Qumran
Sidnie White Crawford
Chapter 7: Qumran and a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible
Ronald S. Hendel
Chapter 8: 4QSama (= 4Q51), the Canon, and the Community of Lay Readers
Donald W. Parry
Chapter 9: Three Sobriquets, Their Meaning and Function: The Wicked Priest, Synagogue of Satan, and the Woman Jezebel
Håkan Bengtsson
Chapter 10: The Biblical and Qumranic Concept of War
Philip R. Davies
Chapter 11: Psalms and Psalters in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Peter W. Flint
Chapter 12: The Importance of Isaiah at Qumran
J. J. M. Roberts
Chapter 13: Biblical Interpretation at Qumran
George J. Brooke
Book 2
Chapter 1 Digital Miracles: Revealing Invisible Scripts
Keith T. Knox, Roger L. Easton, Jr., Robert H. Johnston
Chapter 2 Another Stab at the Wicked Priest
David Noel Freedman and Jeffrey C. Geoghegan
Chapter 3 What’s in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity and Calendar Controversy in Ancient Judaism: The Case of the “Community of the Renewed Covenant”
Shemaryahu Talmon
Chapter 4 The Covenant in Qumran
Moshe Weinfeld
Chapter 5 What was Distinctive about Messianic Expectation at Qumran?
John J. Collins
Chapter 6 The Law and Spirit of Purity at Qumran
Joseph M. Baumgarten
Chapter 7 Excerpted Manuscripts at Qumran: Their Significance for the Textual History of the Hebrew Bible and the Socio-Religious History of the Qumran Community and its Literature
Brent A. Strawn
Chapter 8 The Two Spirits in Qumran Theology
John R. Levison
Chapter 9 Dualism in the Essene Communities
Elisha Qimron
Chapter 10 The Qumran Concept of Time
Henry W. Morisada Rietz
Chapter 11 Predestination in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Magen Broshi
Chapter 12 Resurrection: The Bible and Qumran
Émile Puech
Chapter 13 Qumran Community Structure and Terminology as Theological Statement
Sarianna Metso
Chapter 14 Daily and Festival Prayers at Qumran
Dennis T. Olson
Chapter 15 The Sociological and Liturgical Dimensions of Psalm Pesher 1 (4QpPsa): Some Prolegomenous Reflections
James H. Charlesworth and James D. McSpadden
Chapter 16 The Moses at Qumran: The qdch hrwm as the Nursing-Father of the dxy
Jacob Cherian
Chapter 17 Enoch and the Archangel Michael
Ephraim Isaac
Chapter 18 Qumran and the Dating of the Parables of Enoch
Paolo Sacchi
Chapter 19 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Meal Formula in Joseph and Aseneth: From Qumran Fever to Qumran Light
Randall D. Chesnutt
Chapter 20 The Bible, the Psalms of Solomon, and Qumran
Joseph L. Trafton
Chapter 21 Old Testament Pseudepigrapha at Qumran
Devorah Dimant
Chapter 22 The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha at Qumran
James C. VanderKam
Book 3
Chapter 1 John the Baptizer and the Dead Sea Scrolls
James H. Charlesworth
Chapter 2 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Historical Jesus
Richard A. Horsley
Chapter 3 The Future of a Religious Past: Qumran and the Palestinian Jesus Movement
Donald H. Juel
Chapter 4 The Synoptic Gospels and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Craig A. Evans
Chapter 5 A Study in Shared Symbolism and Language: The Qumran Community and the Johannine Community
James H. Charlesworth
Chapter 6 The Impact of Selected Qumran Texts on the Understanding of Pauline Theology
Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn
Chapter 7 Qumran’s Some Works of Torah (4Q394–399 [4QMMT]) and Paul’s Galatians
James D. G. Dunn and James H. Charlesworth
Chapter 8 How the Scrolls Impacted Scholarship on Hebrews
Harold W. Attridge
Chapter 9 The Dream of a New Jerusalem at Qumran
Adela Yarbro Collins
Chapter 10 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Apocalypse of John
Loren L. Johns
Chapter 11 About the Differing Approach to a Theological Heritage: Comments on the Relationship Between the Gospel of John, the Gospel of Thomas, and Qumran
Enno E. Popkes
Chapter 12 Economic Justice and Nonretaliation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Implications for New Testament Interpretation
Gordon M. Zerbe
Chapter 13 Atonement: Qumran and the New Testament
Paul Garnet
Chapter 14 “The Coming of the Righteous One” in 1 Enoch, Qumran, and the New Testament
Gerbern S. Oegema
Chapter 15 Qumran and Supersessionism—and the Road Not Taken
Krister Stendahl
Chapter 16 The Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls on New Testament Interpretation: Proposals, Problems, and Further Perspectives
Jörg Frey
The three-volume edition Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls will become a milestone for Old and New Testament research. The authors are leading scholars in this field and no other publication has collected so many interesting contributions about the largest finding of biblical and Jewish texts in the last century.
—Martin Hengel, University of Tubingen
These three volumes containing fresh and updated research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible, the Qumran community, and early Christianity, written by renown scholars from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel, and edited by one of the world’s leading scholars, promise to be a major and definitive contribution to scholarship.
—Adolfo Roitman, Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
James H. Charlesworth has assembled a stellar gathering of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars in these rich volumes. They will make a lasting and profoundly significant contribution to the understanding of the greatest archeological find of modern times and the light it throws on the Bible.
—Michael E. Stone, Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Comparative Religion, Professor of Armenian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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