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New Directions in Qumran Studies (2005) is a volume edited by Jonathan G. Campbell, William John Lyons, and Lloyd Pietersen.

Abstract

"Proceedings of the Bristol Colloquium on the Dead Sea Scrolls, 8-10 September 2003."

"Fifty years after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls there have been many advances in the field of Qumran Studies. Yet much work remains undone. In particular the study of the scrolls has continued to follow long established historical critical methods while largely failing to incorporate recent advances in literary, ideological and sociological approaches. The essays collected here are the result of the Bristol Colloquium on the Dead Sea Scrolls held in September 2003. Here, ten scholars working in a diversity of areas demonstrate how these recent advances in scholarship increase our knowledge of the scrolls, their historical context, and their impact on modern critical scholarship. The contributors consider a wide range of approaches, ranging across discussions in sociology, anthropology, literary studies, post-colonialism and ideological criticism. These essays will help to take Qumran Studies forward in new and creative ways."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in London [England] and New York, NY: T&T Clark International, 2005 (Library of Second Temple Studies, 52).

Contents

• Introduction / Jonathan G. Campbell
• The Qumran sect in the context of Second Temple sectarianism / Joseph Blenkinsopp
• The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism / George J. Brooke
• 'Rewritten Bible' and 'parabiblical texts': A terminological and ideological critique / Jonathan G. Campbell
• Sects from texts : on the problems of doing a sociology of the Qumran literature / Philip R. Davies
• 'Men of perfect holiness' (1QS 7.20): social-scientific thoughts on group identity, asceticism and ethical development in the Rule of the community / Louise J. Lawrence
• Another look at the land of Damascus: the spaces of the Damascus document in the light of Edward W. Soja's thirdspace approach / Liv Ingeborg Lied
• 'An unauthorized version' : the Temple scroll in narratological perspective / William John Lyons
• The language of gates and entering : on sacred space in the Temple scroll / Jorunn Økland
• 'False teaching, lying tongues and deceitful lips' (4Q169 frgs 3-4 2.8): the Pesharim and the sociology of deviance / Lloyd K. Pietersen
• Probing the possibilities and pitfalls of post-colonial approaches to the Dead Sea scrolls / Andy M. Reimer

External links

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