The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity (2002 Davila), edited volume

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The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity (2002) is a volume edited by James R. Davila.

Abstract

Proceeding of an international conference at St. Andrews (2001: St. Mary's College, Scotland).

"The International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity (St. Andrews, Scotland, 2001) gathered scholars from a wide range of specialties and perspectives from around the world to explore how the Scrolls contribute to our knowledge of the background of both rabbinic and noncanonical forms of Judaism, and of the origins and early development of Christianity. This volume publishes papers from the conference which deal with the Scrolls and: rabbinic literature; Christian origins; Pauline and Deutero-Pauline literature; and Jewish and Christian liturgy, mysticism, and messianism. It comprises an excellent sketch of the state of the question at the beginning of the twenty-first century and is also programmatic for future research."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2002 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 46).

Contents

Part One - THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND RABBINIC LITERATURE

Part Two - THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY

  • The Early Jerusalem Church, Qumran, and the Essenes / Richard Bauckham
  • The New Covenant in Southern Palestine at the Arrest of Jesus / Brian J. Capper
  • Priesthood as Authority: Interpretive Competition in First-Century Judaism and Christianity / Maxine Grossman

Part Three - THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND PAULINE AND DEUTERO-PAULINE LITERATURE

  • Studying the Qumran Scrolls and Paul in Their Historical Context / Timothy H. Lim
  • Between Qumran and Corinth: Embroidered Allusions to Women's Authority / George J. Brooke
  • Mothers, Sisters, and Elders: Titles for Women in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Communities / Sidnie White Crawford

Part Four - THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN LITURGY, MYSTICISM, AND MESSIANISM

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Liturgy / Bilhah Nitzan
  • Seven-fold Hymns in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and the Hekhalot Literature: Formalism, Hierarchy and the Limits of Human Participation / Ra`anan Abusch
  • Melchizedek, the "Youth," and Jesus / James R. Davila
  • Recovering the "Glory of Adam": "Divine Light" Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Ascetical Literature of Fourth-Century Syro-Mesopotamia / Alexander Golitzin

External links

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