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Carmen Palmer, Andrew R Krause, Eileen M. Schuller, and John Screnock (eds.), Dead Sea Scrolls, revise and repeat: new methods and perspectives (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020).

Abstract

"This book examines the identity of the Qumran movement by reassessing former conclusions and bringing new methodologies to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The essays in this volume reassess the categorization of rule texts, the reuse of scripture, the significance of angelic fellowship, the varieties of calendrical use, and celibacy within the Qumran movement. Contributors consider identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls from new interdisciplinary perspectives, including spatial theory, legal theory, historical linguistics, ethnicity theory, cognitive literary theory, monster theory, and masculinity theory"--

Contents

Introduction: New Approaches to Old Questions / Andrew R. Krause, Carmen Palmer, and John Screnock -- Rule Texts from Qumran on the Spectrum of Jewish Legal Development / Sarianna Metso -- A Legal Approach to Textual Authority at Qumran: The Penal Codes as a Test Case / Jonathan Vroom -- Assessing the Character of Hebrew in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Historical Linguistics, Numerical Syntax, and the Notion of a Distinct 'Dead Sea Scrolls' Hebrew / John Screnock -- Variant Readings in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: A Tool for Ongoing Research on the Textual Status and Linguistic Settings of Ancient Jewish Aramaic Literature / Andrew B. Perrin and Brandon Diggens -- Isaiah at Qumran and in the Gospel of Matthew / Kyung S. Baek -- The Threat of the Monstrous in the Scrolls / Heather Macumber -- Sectarian Identity and Angels Associated with Israel: A Comparison of Daniel 7-12 with 1QS, 11QMelchizedek, and 1QM / Matthew L. Walsh -- Function and Creativity in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Cryptic Calendars from Qumran / Helen R. Jacobus -- Spirits of Controversy in My Bodily Structures: Spatiality of Body and Community in Qumran Apotropaic Prayers / Andrew R. Krause -- Sexuality and Self-Deprecation in the Thanksgiving Psalms: Questions of Celibacy and the Presence of Women in the Yaḥad / Nicholas Meyer -- Masculinities and the Men of the Qumran Communities: Reevaluating the Ideals of Purification, Power, and Performance in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jessica M. Keady -- Circumcision of the Heart in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Second Temple Period: Spiritual, Moral, and Ethnic / Carmen Palmer -- Experiencing the Solidity of Spaces in the Qumran Hodayot / Angela Kim Harkins.

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