Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998 Stone/Chazon), edited volume

Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998) is a volume edited by Michael E. Stone and Esther G. Chazon.

Abstract

Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 May 1996.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden: Brill, 1998 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 28).

Table of contents

• The status of the Torah in the pre-Sinaitic period: St. Paul's epistle to the Romans / Gary A. Anderson
• Scripture and law in 4Q265 / Joseph M. Baumgarten
• Shared intertextual interpretations in the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament / George G. Brooke
• Looking for legal midrash at Qumran / Steven D. Fraade
• "Narrative exegesis" in the Dead Sea scrolls / Ida Frohlich
• A common heritage: biblical interpretation at Qumran and its implications / Menahem Kister
• For King Joshua or against? The use of the Bible in 4Q448 / Emmanuelle Main
• Patriarchs who worry about their wives: a haggadic tendency in the Genesis apocryphon / George W.E. Nickelsburg
• Post-biblical rib pattern admonitions in 4Q302/303a and 4Q381 69, 76-77 / Bilhah Nitzan
• A note on the use of the Bible in 1 Maccabees / Uriel Rappaport
• The case of the Day of Atonement ritual / Lawrence H. Schiffman
• Ancient Jewish astrology: an attempt to interpret 4Qcryptic (4Q186) / Francis Schmidt
• The use of biblical terms as designations for non-biblical hymnic and prayer compositions / Eileen M. Schuller
• On something biblical about 2 Maccabees / Daniel R. Schwartz
• The rewritten Book of Joshua as found at Qumran and Masada / Emanuel Tov