The Dead Sea Scrolls As Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity : : Papers from an International Conference at St. Andrews In 2001 / / James Davila.

• Superior document: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Series ; Volume 46
• Author: International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity St. Mary's College, Scotland)
• VerfasserIn: Davila, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Uiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2003.; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 46.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 340 pages) :; 5 tables.

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 world to explore how the Scrolls contribute to our knowledge of the background of both rabbinic and noncanonical forms of Judaism, and of the origins and early development of Christianity. This volume publishes papers from the conference which deal with the Scrolls and: rabbinic literature; Christian origins; Pauline and Deutero-Pauline literature; and Jewish and Christian liturgy, mysticism, and messianism. It comprises an excellent sketch of the state of the question at the beginning of the twenty-first century and is also programmatic for future research.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND RABBINIC LITERATURE -- THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND RABBINIC HALAKHAH / LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN -- THE TORAH OF THE KING (DEUT 17:14–20) IN THE TEMPLE SCROLL AND EARLY RABBINIC LAW / STEVEN D. FRAADE -- THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- THE EARLY JERUSALEM CHURCH, QUMRAN, AND THE ESSENES / RICHARD BAUCKHAM -- THE NEW COVENANT IN SOUTHERN PALESTINE AT THE ARREST OF JESUS / BRIAN J. CAPPER -- PRIESTHOOD AS AUTHORITY: INTERPRETIVE COMPETITION IN FIRST-CENTURY JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY / MAXINE GROSSMAN -- THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND PAULINE AND DEUTERO-PAULINE LITERATURE -- STUDYING THE QUMRAN SCROLLS AND PAUL IN THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT / TIMOTHY H. LIM -- BETWEEN QUMRAN AND CORINTH: EMBROIDERED ALLUSIONS TO WOMEN'S AUTHORITY / GEORGE J. BROOKE -- MOTHERS, SISTERS, AND ELDERS: TITLES FOR WOMEN IN SECOND TEMPLE JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES / LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN -- THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN LITURGY, MYSTICISM, AND MESSIANISM -- THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE JEWISH LITURGY / BILHAH NITZAN -- SEVENFOLD HYMNS IN THE SONGS OF THE SABBATH SACRIFICE AND THE HEKHALOT LITERATURE: FORMALISM, HIERARCHY AND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PARTICIPATION / RA‘ANAN ABUSCH -- MELCHIZEDEK, THE “YOUTH,” AND JESUS / JAMES R. DAVILA -- RECOVERING THE “GLORY OF ADAM”: “DIVINE LIGHT” TRADITIONS IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE CHRISTIAN ASCETICAL LITERATURE OF FOURTH-CENTURY SYRO-MESOPOTAMIA / ALEXANDER GOLITZIN -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS -- INDEX OF PRIMARY SOURCES -- STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.