The Dead Sea scrolls in scholarly perspective : a history of research / / edited by Devorah Dimant ; with the assistance of Ingo Kottsieper.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dimant, Devorah.; Kottsieper, Ingo.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 99; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 99.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (708 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.; This volume consists of 27 surveys of research into the Dead Sea scrolls in the past 60 years, written by 26 authors.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Devorah Dimant -- The Identification and History of the Qumran Community in American Scholarship / Sidnie White Crawford -- Research on the Sectarian Scrolls in North America / Eillen M. Schuller -- Biblical Scrolls Scholarship in North America / Eugene Ulrich -- "Rewritten Bible" in North American Scholarship / Sidnie White Crawford -- Qumran Research in the United States: The Non-Sectarian Texts / James C. VanderKam -- American Scholarship on Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Alex P. Jassen -- The Aramaic Texts and the Hebrew and Aramaic Languages at Qumran: The North American Contribution / Moshe J. Bernstein and Aaron Koller -- The Scrolls and Christianity in American Scholarship / John J. Collins -- Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls / Eileen M. Schuller -- Israeli Scholarship on the Qumran Community / Devorah Dimant -- Israeli Research on the Ideology of the Qumran Community / Bilhah Nitzan -- Israeli Scholarship on the Biblical Texts from the Judean Desert / Emanuel Tov -- Qumran Research in Israel: Rewritten Bible and Biblical Interpretation / Michael Segal -- The Liturgical Texts from Qumran in Israeli Research / Bilhah Nitzan -- Trends and Themes in Israeli Research of the Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Aharon Shemesh -- Israeli Research into Hebrew and Aramaic at Qumran / Steven E. Fassberg -- Excavations in the Judean Desert and at Qumran under Israeli Jurisdiction / Hanan Eshel -- Qumran Research: Contribution of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem / Emile Puech -- Qumran Research in France / André Lemaire -- Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship in the United Kingdom / George J. Brooke -- Research of Qumran Scrolls in the Netherlands / Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar -- A History of Qumran Scrolls Research in Spain / Florentino García Martínez and Julio Trebolle Barrera -- Qumran Research and Biblical Scholarship in Germany / Jörg Frey -- Basic Research, Methods and Approaches to the Qumran Scrolls in German-Speaking Countries / Annette Steudel -- Qumran Research in Italy / Corrado Martone -- Qumran Research in Nordic Countries / Sarianna Metso -- Qumran Research in Eastern and Central Europe / Ida Fröhlich -- Index of Sources -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Modern Scholars.