Esther G. Chazon (1953-), scholar

Esther G. Chazon is an American-born Israeli scholar, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Biography

Born in 1953 in the United States of America. Moved to Israel in 1975. PhD (1992) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Director of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Associated Literature. Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Hebrew Literature.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Edited volumes

• Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998 Stone/Chazon), edited volume
• Pseudepigraphical Perspectives: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1999 Chazon/Stone), edited volume
• The Damascus Document: A Centennial of Discovery (2000 Baumgarten/Chazon), edited volume
• Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2003 Chazon), edited volume
• Things Revealed: Studies in Early Jewish and Christian Literature (2004 Chazon/Satran/Clements), edited volume
• (with Deborah Dimant). Reworking the Bible at Qumran in the Context of Second Temple Judaism (Leiden 2005)