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Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity (2009) is a volume edited by Ruth Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz.

Abstract

"Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, jointly sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 11-13 January, 2004."

"The 13 papers comprising this volume represent the fruits of the first Orion Center Symposium devoted to the comparison of the Dead Sea and early Christian texts. The authors reject the older paradigm which configured the similarities between Qumran and early Christian literature as evidence of “influence” from one upon the other. They raise fresh methodological possibilities by asking how insights from each of these two corpora illuminate the other, and by considering them as parallel evidence for broader currents of Second Temple Judaism. Topics addressed include specific exegetical and legal comparisons; prophecy, demonology, and messianism; the development of canon and the rise of commentary; and possible connections between the Gospel of John and the Dead Sea Scrolls."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2009 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 84).

Table of contents

• The Dead Sea scrolls and the origins of biblical commentary / Markus Bockmuehl
• Prophets and prophecy in the Qumran scrolls and the New Testament / George J. Brooke
• Special people or special books? On Qumran and New Testament notions of canon / Daniel R. Schwartz
• Temple and righteousness in Qumran and early Christianity: tracing the social difference between the two movements / Eyal Regev
• We, you, they: boundary language in 4QMMT and the New Testament epistles / Adele Reinhartz
• The Gospel of John and the Dead Sea scrolls / Harold W. Attridge
• Recent perspectives on Johannine dualism and its background / Jörg Frey
• Towards a theology of the tabernacle and its furniture / Gary A. Anderson
• Divorce, reproof, and other sayings in the Synoptic Gospels: Jesus traditions in the context of "Qumranic" and other texts / [[Menahem Kister]
• Exegetical patterns common to the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament, and their implications / Serge Ruzer
• Melchizedek: a model for the union of kingship and priesthood in the Hebrew Bible, 11QMelchizedek, and the Epistle to the Hebrews / Israel Knohl
• Demonology in the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament / Hermann Lichtenberger
• A messiah in heaven? A re-evaluation of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic traditions / Cana Werman

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