The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years (1998-99 Flint, VanderKam), edited volume

The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (1998-99) is a two-volume work edited by Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam, with the assistance of Andrea E. Alvarez.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, <2 vols.> 1998, 1999.

Table of contents

Fifty years of Qumran research / Adam S. van der Woude -- Qumran archaeology : past perspectives and future prospects / Jodi Magness -- Dead Sea Scrolls and the the biblical text / Eugene Ulrich -- Dead Sea Scrolls and the Greek Bible / Leonard J. Greenspoon -- Pentateuchal interpretation at Qumran / Moshe J. Bernstein -- Biblical law at Qumran / Hannah K. Harrington -- Constitutional rules at Qumran / Sarianna Metso -- Diverse aspects of wisdom in the Qumran texts / John I. Kampen -- Hymns and prayers in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Esther G. Chazon -- Parabiblical prophetic narratives / George J. Brooke -- Copper Scroll / Al Wolters -- Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Martin G. Abegg, Jr. -- Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Edward M. Cook -- Palaeography and the dead Sea Scrolls / Frank Moore Cross -- Scribal practices refleted in the texts from the Judean Desert / Emanuel Tov -- Dating the scrolls on the basis of radiocarbon analysis / Greg Doudna -- Imaging the scrolls : photographic and direct digital acquisition / Gregory Bearman, Stephen J. Pfann, and Sheila I. Spiro -- New technological advances : DNA, databases, imaging radar / Donald W. Parry ... [et al.] -- Assembling and reconstructing manuscripts / Annette Steudel -- Preserving the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran artefacts / Esther Boyd-Alkalay and Elena Libman.