The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls : : technological innovations, new texts, and reformulated issues / / edited by Donald W. Parry and Eugene Ulrich.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 30
• Author: Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls
• TeilnehmendeR: Parry, Donald W.; Ulrich, Eugene, 1938-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 711 pages) :; illustrations, map.

This volume contains the published proceedings of the conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, held at Provo, Utah, July 15-17, 1996. Forty-three articles, all dealing with various aspects of the Scrolls, are placed under the following divisions: Technology, Editions and Analyses of Texts, The Qumran Community, Calendar, Levi and the Priesthood, Messianism and Eschatology, and Wisdom and Liturgy. The volume offers the most recent scholarship on a number of issues and topics pertaining to the Qumran community, newly translated biblical and non-biblical texts, and technological advances that assist scholars and researchers in accessing and studying the scrolls. The section that pertains to technology, for example, focuses on DNA techniques to analyze Scroll fragments and an imaging radar system that has archaeological applications to Qumran and its environs. Another section addresses the question of how and where the Qumranites lived and speaks concerning Qumran names.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNOLOGY -- IMAGING CLARIFIED / GREGORY BEARMAN and SHEILA SPIRO -- THE ALLEGRO QUMRAN PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION: OLD PHOTOS AND NEW INFORMATION / GEORGE J. BROOKE -- PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: DNA AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS / SCOTT R. WOODWARD , BLAKE C. BALLIF , LORI C. WOOD , GILA K. BARGAL and MAGEN BROSHI -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) / GAYLE F. MINER , DAVID V. ARNOLD , DAVID G. LONG , DOUGLAS G. THOMPSON , THOMAS W. KARLINSEY , PERRY J. HARDIN and ELAINE M. ALGER -- EDITIONS AND ANALYSES OF TEXTS -- THE IMPACT OF THE SCROLLS ON BIBLICAL STUDIES / JAMES A. SANDERS -- 4QSAMa (4Q51): A PRELIMINARY EDITION OF 1 SAMUEL 25:3–31:4 / DONALD W. PARRY -- THE OLDEST PSALMS MANUSCRIPT: 4QPSa (4Q83) / EUGENE ULRICH -- A PRELIMINARY EDITION OF 4QPSd (4Q86) / PETER W. FLINT -- TOWARD A NEW EDITION OF 1 QGENESIS APOCRYPHON / ELISHA QIMRON -- A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY: TESTAMENT OF NAPHTALI (4Q215) AND TIME OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (4Q215a) / ESTHER C. CHAZON -- 4QTIME OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (4Q215a, OLIM 4QTNAPHTALI): A PRELIMINARY PUBLICATION OF FRAGMENT 1 II / ESTHER G. CHAZON and MICHAEL E. STONE -- BIBLICAL ADAPTATION IN 4Q392 WORKS OF GOD AND 4Q393 COMMUNAL CONFESSION / DANIEL K. FALK -- 4Q437: A FIRST LOOK AT AN UNPUBLISHED BARKI NAFSHI TEXT / DAVID ROLPH SEELY -- 4QMISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS: PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS / DANA M. PIKE and ANDREW C. SKINNER -- RECONSTRUCTING 11Q17 SHIROT ‘OLAT HA-SHABBAT / EIBERT J. C. TIGCHELAAR -- MORE FRAGMENTS OF 11QNJ / FLORENTINO GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ -- NOAH AND THE FLOOD AT QUMRAN / MOSHE J. BERNSTEIN -- CORRECTION PROCEDURES IN THE TEXTS FROM THE JUDEAN DESERT / EMANUEL TOV -- THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY -- HOW AND WHERE DID THE QUMRANITES LIVE? / MAGEN BROSHI and HANAN ESHEL -- QUMRAN AND THE ANCIENT SOURCES / CURTIS HUTT -- QUMRAN NAMES / IDA FRÖHLICH -- IN SEARCH OF THE SITZ IM LEBEN OF THE COMMUNITY RULE / SARIANNA METSO -- COMMUNITY ORIGINS IN THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT SCHOLARSHIP / CHARLOTTE HEMPEL -- THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF CD 20:13–15 / HANAN ESHEL -- THE ESSENE YEARLY RENEWAL CEREMONY AND THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE / STEPHEN J. PFANN -- JOHN THE BAPTIZER AND QUMRAN BARRIERS IN LIGHT OF THE RULE OF THE COMMUNITY / JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH -- CALENDAR -- CALENDAR CONTROVERSY IN ANCIENT JUDAISM: THE CASE OF THE “COMMUNITY OF THE RENEWED COVENANT” / SHEMARYAHU TALMON -- DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS: A REEXAMINATION OF 4Q503 IN LIGHT OF 4Q317 / MARTIN G. ABEGG Jr. -- AN ASTRONOMICAL MEASURING INSTRUMENT FROM QUMRAN / UWE GLEßMER and MATTHIAS ALBANI -- SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE NEW MISHMAROT TEXTS FROM QUMRAN / CORRADO MARTONE -- LEVI AND THE PRIESTHOOD -- THE ARAMAIC LEVI DOCUMENT / JOSEPH A. FITZMYER -- THE PRIESTHOOD AT QUMRAN: THE EVIDENCE OF REFERENCES TO LEVI AND THE LEVITES / ROBERT KUGLER -- PRIESTLY AND LEVITICAL GIFTS IN THE TEMPLE SCROLL / LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN -- ISAAC'S BLESSING OF LEVI AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN JUBILEES 31 / JAMES C. VANDERKAM -- MESSIANISM AND ESCHATOLOGY -- STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF QUMRAN MESSIANISM IN THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT / WILLIAM M. SCHNIEDEWIND.