The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Context (2010 Hempel), edited volume

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Context (2010) is an edited volume by Charlotte Hempel.

Abstract

Proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Birmingham in 2007.

"This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the same title held at the University of Birmingham in 2007. The contributors are drawn from the ranks of leading international specialists in the field writing alongside promising younger scholars. The volume includes studies on the contribution of the Scrolls to Second Temple Jewish history, the archaeological context, the role of the temple and its priesthood, as well as treatments on selected texts and issues. These proceedings offer a timely and up to date assessment of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the material remains unearthed at Qumran in their wider context and not infrequently challenge prevailing lines of interpretation. Helen Jacobus has won the Sean Dever Memorial Prize with her contribution to this volume. Commenting on the Dever prize, Professor Carol Meyers of Duke University, North Carolina, said: “The judges thought highly of Helen’s meticulous scholarship and careful presentation of the data in her discussion of the zodiac and its role in Jewish calendars.”--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2010 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 90).

Table of contents

Preface / Albert Baumgarten -- Introduction / Charlotte Hempel -- The scrolls and the literary landscape of Second Temple Judaism / Michael E. Stone -- What history can we get from the scrolls, and how? / Philip R. Davies -- Gleaning of scrolls from the Judean desert / Hanan Eshel -- Scrolls and hand impurity / Jodi Magness -- The glass from Khirbet Qumran : what does it tell us about the Qumran community? / Dennis Mizzi -- Cave 11 in context / Florentino García Martínez -- Further reflections on caves 1 and 11 : a response to Florentino García Martínez / Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra -- Temple mysticism and the temple men / Torleif Elgvin -- Priests at Qumran : a reassessment / Heinz-Josef Fabry -- The Qumran sectarians and the temple in Jerusalem / Martin Goodman -- The context of 4QMMT and comfortable theories / Charlotte Hempel -- The centrality of the temple in 4QMMT / Hanne von Weissenberg -- Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran Pesharim / George J. Brooke -- Demonstrable instances of the use of sources in the Pseudepigrapha / Vered Hillel -- Marriage and divorce : from social institution to Halakhic norms / Bernard S. Jackson -- 4Q318 : a Jewish Zodiac calendar at Qumran? / Helen R. Jacobus -- Qumran and the rabbis on corpse-impurity : common exegesis : tacit problem / Vered Noam -- Between two sects : differentiating the Yahad and the Damascus covenant / Eyal Regev -- From Cairo Genizah to Qumran : the influence of the Zadokite fragments on the study of the Qumran scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Dio Chrysostom on the Essene landscape / Joan E. Taylor

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