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    T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls by Brooke, George J.; Hempel, Charlotte;

    Series: Bloomsbury Companions;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 21 August 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780567716798
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages672 pages
    • Size 234x156x40 mm
    • Weight 980 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 11 bw illus
    • 680

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    Short description:

    All of the key texts and documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls are examined, methods used to analyse the scrolls are discussed, and they are considered in their various contexts; political, religious, cultural, economic, and historical. The volume concludes with a look at the crucial issues and topics discussed by leading scholars.

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    Long description:

    The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century. They have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance, not least in relation to the transmission of many of the books which came to be included in the Hebrew Bible. This companion comprises over 70 articles, exploring the entire body of the key texts and documents labelled as Dead Sea Scrolls.

    Beginning with a section on the complex methods used in discovering, archiving and analysing the Scrolls, the focus moves to consideration of the Scrolls in their various contexts: political, religious, cultural, economic and historical. The genres ascribed to groups of texts within the Scrolls- including exegesis and interpretation, poetry and hymns, and liturgical texts - are then examined, with due attention given to both past and present scholarship. The main body of the Companion concludes with crucial issues and topics discussed by leading scholars. Complemented by extensive appendices and indexes, this Companion provides the ideal resource for those seriously engaging with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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    Table of Contents:

    Abbreviations
    List of Images and Figures
    List of Contributors
    Introduction - George J. Brooke and Charlotte Hempel
    I. Background
    Discoveries - Hans Debel
    Archaeology of Qumran - Dennis Mizzi
    Manuscript Collections: An Overview - Mladen Popovic
    Publication Process - Weston Fields and son
    Scholarly and Popular Reception - Matthew Collins
    II. Context
    Ethnicity: A Fresh Religious Context of the Scrolls - Robert Kugler
    The Yahad in the Context of Hellenistic Group Formation - Benedikt Eckhardt
    Regional Context of the Dead Sea - Joan E. Taylor
    Qumran and the Ancient Near East - Henryk Drawnel
    Scrolls and Early Judaism - George J. Brooke
    Scrolls and Early Christianity - Albert Hogeterp
    Scrolls and Hellenistic Jewish Literature
    a. Philo - Joan E. Taylor
    b. Josephus - James McLaren
    c. Other Literature - Matthias Henze
    Scrolls and non-Jewish Hellenistic Literature - Jutta Leonhardt Balzer
    III. Methods
    Physicality of Manuscripts and Material Culture - Ingo Kottsieper
    Scientific Technologies - Ingo Kottsieper
    Reading and Reconstructing Manuscripts - Annette Steudel
    Languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek - Holger Gzella
    Biblical Scholarship and Qumran Studies - Reinhard G. Kratz
    Scrolls and the Study of the Ancient World - Benjamin Wright
    Historiography - Philip R. Davies
    Social Scientific Approaches
    a. Sectarianism - David Chalcraft
    b. Sociolinguistics - Trine Hasselbach
    c. Identity Theory - Lloyd Pietersen
    Postmodern and Poststructuralist Questions - Maxine Grossman
    IV. Key Texts
    Aramaic Job - David Shepherd
    Aramaic Levi - Vered Hillel
    Authoritative Scriptures: Torah and Related Texts - Katell Berthelot
    Authoritative Scriptures: Prophets and Related Texts - Roman Vielhauer
    Authoritative Scriptures: Writings and Related Texts - Ulrich Dahmen
    Authoritative Scriptures: Other - Kelley Coblentz Bautch and Jack Weinbender
    Barkhi Nafshi - Daniel Falk
    Bar Kokhba Letters - Lutz Doering
    Beatitudes - Dorothy Peters
    Berakhot - Daniel Falk
    Commentaries on Genesis - George J. Brooke
    Copper Scroll - Jesper Hï¿1⁄2genhaven
    Damascus Document (D) - Liora Goldman
    Genesis Apocryphon - Daniel Machiela
    Hodayot (H) - Angela Kim Harkins
    Instruction - Benjamin Wold
    Messianic Apocalypse - Eric Mason
    Mil?amah (M) - Brian Schultz
    Miq?at Ma?ase ha-Torah (MMT) - Hanne von Weissenberg
    Mysteries - Samuel Thomas
    New Jerusalem - Michael Langlois
    Pesharim - Shani Tzoref
    Rule of Blessings (Sb) - Judith Newman
    Rule of Congregation (Sa) - Corrado Martone
    Serekh ha-Yahad (S) - Stephen Hultgren
    Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice - Judith Newman
    Son of God Text - Eric Mason
    Tan?umim - Jesper Hogenhaven
    Temple Scroll - Joseph Angel
    Testimonia - Eva Mroczek
    Wiles of Wicked Woman - Michael Lesley
    Words of the Luminaries - Judith Newman
    V. Types of Literature
    Bible - Mika Pajunen
    Parabiblical Texts /Rewritten Scripture - Molly Zahn
    Exegesis and Interpretation - Michael Segal
    Halakhah - Vered Noam
    Rules - Charlotte Hempel
    Poetry and Hymns - Daniel Stï¿1⁄2kl Ben Ezra
    Liturgical Texts - Daniel Falk
    Calendars - Helen Jacobus
    Wisdom - Matthew Goff
    Mystical Texts, Magic, and Divination - Gideon Bohak
    VI. Issues and Topics
    Patriarchs and Aramaic Traditions - Ariel Feldman
    Revelation - Hindy Najman and Nick Hilton
    God(s), Angels and Demons - Hanne von Weissenberg
    Eschatologies and Messianisms - Kenneth E. Pomykala
    Jerusalem and the Temple - Mila Ginsburskaya
    Purity and Holiness - Cecilia Wassen
    The Scribes of the Scrolls - Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar
    Forms of Community - Alison Schofield
    Daily Life - Cecilia Wassen
    Ethics and Dualism - Marcus Tso
    War and Violence -Alex Jassen
    APPENDICES A-G - Drew Longacre, Michael DeVries
    Index - Michael DeVries

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