International Organization for Qumran Studies (1992-), learned society

The International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS) is an international academic society, devoted to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

History

The International Organization for Qumran Studies was founded in the summer of 1989 in Groningen at an international conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, at the iniative of Florentino Garcia Martinez.

Starting from 1992, there have been meetings of the Organization every three years at different locations in Europe. The Proceedings are published in the series Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah.

Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar (Catholic University of Leuven) is the current Executive secretary of the IOQS.

The steering comittee is formed by George J. Brooke (University of Manchester), Esther Chazon (Hebrew University Jerusalem), Daniel Falk (University of Oregon) and Annette Steudel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).

Meetings and Proceedings

• IOQS Founding Meeting (Groningen, Netherlands; 1989)
  • The papers presented at the founding meeting were published in three consecutive issues of the journal Revue de Qumrân 14/54 (1989) 181–323; 14/55 (1990): 325–495; and 14/56 (1990): 497–676.

• 1. IOQS Meeting, 1st (Paris, France; July 19-24, 1992)
  • New Qumran Texts and Studies (1994 Brooke / García Martínez), edited volume

• 2. IOQS Meeting, 2nd (Cambridge, England; 1995)
  • Legal Texts and Legal Issues (1997 Bernstein, García Martínez, Kampen), edited volume

• 3. IOQS Meeting, 3rd (Oslo, Norway; 2-4 August 2-4, 1998)
  • Sapiential, Liturgical, and Poetical Texts from Qumran (2000 Falk / García Martínez / Schuller), edited volume

• 4. IOQS Meeting, 4th (Basel, Switzerland; 5-7 August 2001)
  • No volume of proceedings was published; a number of articles appeared in Revue de Qumrân 21/83 (2004): 365–456.

• 5. IOQS Meeting, 5th (Groningen, Netherlands; July 25-28, 2004)
  • Defining Identities: We, You, and the Other in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2008 García Martínez / Popovic), edited volume

• 6. IOQS Meeting, 6th (Ljubljana, Slovenia; July 16-18, 2007)
  • Qumran Cave 1 Revisited (2010 Parry, et al.), edited volume

• 7. IOQS Meeting, 7th (Helsinki, Finland; August 2-4, 2010)
  • The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions (2012 Brooke, et al.), edited volume

• 8. IOQS Meeting, 8th (München, Germany; August 4-7, 2013)
  • "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities: Method, Theory, Meaning"

• 9. IOQS Meeting, 9th (Leuven, Netherlands; 2016)
  • Law, Literature, and Society in Legal Texts from Qumran (2019 Jokiranta, Zahn), edited volume

External links

• Official Website, University of Groningen