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- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 785 p.) : ill., maps.
- Series Statement
- Oxford handbooks.
- Uniform Title
- Oxford handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Online)
- Oxford handbooks.
- Alternative Title
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Subject
- Dead Sea scrolls
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Current issues in Dead Sea Scrolls research / Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins -- Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran and the Judaean wilderness -- Khirbet Qumran and its environs / Eric M. Meyers -- The Qumran Cemetery reassessed / Rachel Hachlili -- The scrolls and Jewish history -- Constructing ancient Judaism from the Scrolls / Martin Goodman -- The origins and history of the teacher's movement / Michael O. Wise -- Women in Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Tal Ilan -- The Scrolls and sectarianism -- Sectarian communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins -- The classical sources of the Essenes and the Scrolls communities / Joan E. Taylor -- Sociological approaches to Qumran sectarianism / Jutta Jokiranta -- Qumran calendars and sectarianism / Sacha Stern -- The Book of Enoch and the Qumran Scrolls / James C. VanderKam -- The biblical texts, interpretation, and languages of the Scrolls -- Assessing the text-critical theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran / Ronald S. Hendel -- Authoritative scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Timothy H. Lim -- Rewritten scripture / Molly M. Zahn -- The continuity of biblical interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic literature / Bilhah Nitzan -- Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls / Jan Joosten -- Religious themes in the scrolls -- Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jonathan Klawans -- Apocalypticism and Messianism / Michael A. Knibb -- Exploring the mystical background of the Dead Sea Scrolls / James R. Davila -- Wisdom literature and thought in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Armin Lange -- Iranian connections in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Albert De Jong -- Was the Dead Sea Sect a penitential movement? / David Lambert -- The scrolls and early Christianity -- Critical issues in the investigation of the Scrolls and the New Testament / Jörg Frey -- Monotheism, principal angels, and the background of Christology / L.W. Hurtado -- Shared exegetical traditions between the Scrolls and the New Testament / George J. Brooke -- The Scrolls and later Judaism -- Halakhah between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic literature / Aaron Shemesh -- The contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the study of ancient Jewish liturgy / Daniel K. Falk -- Reviewing the links between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah / Stefan C. Reif -- New approaches to the Scrolls -- Rhetorical criticism and the reading of the Qumran Scrolls / Carol A. Newsom -- Roland Barthes and the teacher of righteousness : the death of the author of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Maxine L. Grossman -- The Scrolls and the legal definition of authorship / Hector L. MacQueen.
- LCCN
- 2010537730
- OCLC
- ssj0000495042
- Title
The Oxford handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls [electronic resource] / edited by Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Series
Oxford handbooks.
Oxford handbooks.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Lim, Timothy H.
Collins, John J. (John Joseph), 1946-