The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years : : A Comprehensive Assessment / / edited by Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam.

• Superior document: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive pre-2000
• TeilnehmendeR: Flint, Peter W.,; VanderKam, James C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999.; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive pre-2000.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (816 pages) :; illustrations.

The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years is being published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the first scrolls at Qumran. The two-volume set contains a comprehensive set of cutting-edge articles on a wide range of topics that are archaeological, historical, literary, sociological,...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam
• Preface / James C. VanderKam and Peter W. Flint
• Terms, Sigla and Abbreviations / Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam
• List of Contributors / Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam
• Introduction to Volume Two / Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam
• The Scrolls and the Canonical Process / James A. Sanders
• ”Apocrypha,” Other Previously-Known Writings, and ”Peudepigrapha” in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Peter W. Flint
• Community Structures in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Admission, Organization, Disciplinary Procedures / Charlotie Hempel
• Priesthood at Qumran / Robert A. Kugler
• Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Eileen Schuller
• Repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Bilhah Nitzan
• Holiness in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jacobus A. Naudé
• The Purification Liturgies / Joseph M. Baumgarten
• Calendars in the Qumran Scrolls / Uwe Glessmer
• Horoscopes in the Qumran Scrolls / Matihias Albani
• The Demonology of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Philip S. Alexander
• Prophets and Prophecy at Qumran / James E. Bowley
• Eschatology and Messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Michael A. Knibb
• Apocalypticism and Literary Genre in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins
• The Temple Scroll and the New Jerusalem / Florentino García Martínez
• Heavenly Ascents in the Dead Sea Scrolls / James R. Davila
• Identity and History of the Community / Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam
• Others and Intra-Jewish Polemic as Reflected in Qumran Texts / Stephen Goranson
• The Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism / Lawrence H. Schiffman
• Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Craig A. Evans
• Paul and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Joseph A. Fitzmyer
• Qumran and the Book of Revelation / David E. Aune
• Appendix I Index of Passages in The Biblical Scrolls / Eugene Ulrich
• Appendix II Index of Passages from the Apocrypha and Previouslyknown Writings (“Pseudepigrapha”) in the Scrolls / Peter W. Flint
• Appendix III A List of The Texts from The Judaean Desert / Emanuel Tov
• Indices / Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam.