The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective

by Dimant, Devorah; Kottsieper, Ingo (CON)

• ISBN13: 9789004208063
• ISBN10: 9004208062
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

The volume consists of 27 surveys of research into the Dead Sea Scrolls in the past 60 years, written by 26 authors. An innovation of the volume is that it covers Qumran scholarship in separate countries: the USA, Canada, Israel, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Italy and the Eastern bloc. Each essay also carries a detailed bibliography for the respective country. Biographies of all the major scholars active in the field are briefly given as well. This book thereby exhaustively surveys past and present Qumran research, outlining its particular development in various circumstances and national contexts. For the first time, perspectives and information not recorded in any other publication are highlighted.

Author Biography

Devorah Dimant, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Professor (em) for Ancient Jewish Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel. Has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. She has produced first editions of several Qumran scrolls in Qumran Cave 4-XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part: 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXX; Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 2001).

Table of Contents

Contents	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Frequently Cited Works	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship in America
The Identification and History of the Qumran Community in American Scholarship	p. 13
Research on the Sectarian Scrolls in North America	p. 31
Biblical Scrolls Scholarship in North America	p. 49
"Rewritten Bible" in North American Scholarship	p. 75
Qumran Research in the United States: The Non-Sectarian Texts	p. 79
American Scholarship on Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 101
The Aramaic Texts and the Hebrew and Aramaic Languages at Qumran: The North American Contribution	p. 155
The Scrolls and Christianity in American Scholarship	p. 197
Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 217
Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship in Israel
Israeli Scholarship on the Qumran Community	p. 237
Israeli Research on the Ideology of the Qumran Community	p. 281
Israeli Scholarship on the Biblical Texts from the Judean Desert	p. 297
Qumran Research in Israel: Rewritten Bible and Biblical Interpretation	p. 315
The Liturgical Texts from Qumran in Israeli Research	p. 335
Trends and Themes in Israeli Research of the Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 345
Israeli Research into Hebrew and Aramaic at Qumran	p. 363
Excavations in the Judean Desert and at Qumran under Israeli Jurisdiction	p. 381
Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship in Europe
Qumran Research: Contribution of the École Biblique et Archéologique Francaise in Jerusalem	p. 403
Qumran Research in France	p. 433
Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship in the United Kingdom	p. 449
Research of Qumran Scrolls in the Netherlands	p. 487
A History of Qumran Scrolls Research in Spain	p. 511
Qumran Research and Biblical Scholarship in Germany	p. 529
Basic Research, Methods and Approaches to the Qumran Scrolls in German-Speaking Countries	p. 565
Qumran Research in Italy	p. 601
Qumran Research in Nordic Countries	p. 611
Qumran Research in Eastern and Central Europe	p. 621
Index of Sources	p. 645
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 669
Index of Modem Scholars	p. 675
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