International Organization for Qumran Studies (1992-), learned society

The International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS) is an international academic society, devoted to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

History

The International Organization for Qumran Studies was founded in the summer of 1989 in Groningen at an international conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Starting from 1991, there have been meetings of the Organization every three years at different locations in Europe. The Proceedings are published in the series Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah.

Eibert Tigchelaar (Catholic University of Leuven) is the current Executive secretary of the IOQS.

The steering comittee is formed by George Brooke (University of Manchester), Esther Chazon (Hebrew University Jerusalem), Daniel Falk (University of Oregon) and Annette Steudel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).

Meetings and Proceedings

• 1989 (Groningen, Netherlands) - Founding Meeting
  • The papers presented at the founding meeting were published in three consecutive issues of the journal Revue de Qumrân 14/54 (1989) 181–323; 14/55 (1990): 325–495; and 14/56 (1990): 497–676.

• 1992 (Paris, France) - 1st Meeting of IOQS
  • New Qumran Texts and Studies (1994 Brooke / García Martínez), edited volume

• 1995 (Cambridge, England) - 2nd Meeting of IOQS
  • Legal Texts and Legal Issues (1997 Bernstein / García Martínez / Kampen), edited volume

• 1998 (Oslo, Norway; 2-4 August 1998) - 3rd Meeting of IOQS
  • Sapiential, Liturgical, and Poetical Texts from Qumran (2000 Falk / García Martínez / Schuller), edited volume

• 2001 (Basel, Switzerland; 5-7 August 2001) - 4th Meeting of IOQS
  • No volume of proceedings was published; a number of articles appeared in Revue de Qumrân 21/83 (2004): 365–456.

• 2004 (Groningen, Netherlands; 25-28 July 2004) - 5th Meeting of IOQS
  • Defining Identities: We, You, and the Other in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2008 García Martínez / Popovic), edited volume

• 2007 (Ljubljana, Slovenia; 16-18 July 2007) - 6th Meeting of IOQS
  • Qumran Cave 1 Revisited (2010 Parry, et al.), edited volume

• 2010 (Helsinki, Finland; 2-4 August 2010) - 7th Meeting of IOQS
  • The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions (2012 Brooke, et al.), edited volume

• 2013 (München, Germany; August 4-7, 2013) - 8th Meeting of IOQS: "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities: Method, Theory, Meaning"

External links

• Official Website, University of Groningen