Historical Perspectives: From the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2001 Goodblatt/Pinnick/Schwartz), edited volume

Historical Perspectives: From the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2001) is a volume edited by David Goodblatt, Avital Pinnick, and Daniel R. Schwartz.

Abstract

Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 27-31 January 1999.

"The papers published in this volume were presented at the Fourth Orion International Symposium (Jerusalem, 1999), whose focus was Jewish history in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first section, “History of the Jews and Judaism,” is devoted to specific topics in Jewish history, such as historical references in the Scrolls, comparative studies between the Scrolls and Josephus, and issues of Jewish nationalism. The second section, “Community and Covenant,” comprises studies of community, Jewish law, and the concept of covenant. The third section, “Natural Sciences and the Scrolls,” reports on examinations of DNA preserved in leather used for the Scrolls, of dust found in jars from Qumran, of the nature of the stitching of the Scrolls, and of the composition of the pottery found at Qumran."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2001 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 37).

Contents

Judean nationalism in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls /; David Goodblatt --; The Kittim in the War scroll and in the Pesharim /; Hanan Eshel --; Antiochus IV Epiphanes in Jerusalem /; Daniel R. Schwartz --; Shelamzion in Qumran : new insights /; Tal Ilan --; Descriptions of the Jerusalem Temple in Josephus and the Temple scroll /; Lawrence H. Schiffman --; The concept of the covenant in Qumran literature /; Bilhah Nitzan -- "[T]he[y] did not read in the sealed book" : Qumran halakhic revolution and the emergence of Torah study in Second Temple Judaism /; Adiel Schremer --; Communal fasts in the Judean desert scrolls /; Noah Hacham --; The community of goods among the first Christians and among the Essenes /; Justin Taylor --; The genetic signature of the Dead Sea scrolls /; Gila Kahila Bar-Gal [and others] --; Analysis of microsopic material and the stitching of the Dead Sea scrolls : a preliminary study /; Azriel Gorski --; How neutron activation analysis can assist research into the provenance of the pottery at Qumran /; Jan Gunneweg, Marta Balla.

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