The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010 Lim, Collins), edited volume

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The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010) is a volume edited by Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins.

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Abstract

"In 1947 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the first discovery. That occasion was marked by a spate of major publications that attempted to sum up the state of scholarship at the end of the twentieth century, including The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (OUP 2000). These publications produced an authoritative synthesis to which the majority of scholars in the field subscribed, granted disagreements in detail. A decade or so later, The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls has a different objective and character. It seeks to probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Scrolls. Lively debate continues over the archaeology and history of the site, the nature and identity of the sect, and its relation to the broader world of Second Temple Judaism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition. It is the Handbook's intention here to reflect on diverse opinions and viewpoints, highlight the points of disagreement, and point to promising directions for future research."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Edinburgh [Scotland]: T&T Clark, 2000.

Table of contents

Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran and the Judaean wilderness

The scrolls and Jewish history

The Scrolls and sectarianism

The biblical texts, interpretation, and languages of the Scrolls

  • Assessing the text-critical theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran / Ronald S. Hendel
  • Authoritative scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Timothy H. Lim
  • Rewritten scripture / Molly M. Zahn
  • The continuity of biblical interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic literature / Bilhah Nitzan --
  • Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls / Jan Joosten --

Religious themes in the scrolls --

The scrolls and early Christianity

  • Critical issues in the investigation of the Scrolls and the New Testament / Jörg Frey
  • Monotheism, principal angels, and the background of Christology / Larry W. Hurtado
  • Shared exegetical traditions between the Scrolls and the New Testament / George J. Brooke

The Scrolls and later Judaism

  • Halakhah between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic literature / Aaron Shemesh
  • The contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the study of ancient Jewish liturgy / Daniel K. Falk
  • Reviewing the links between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah / Stefan C. Reif

New approaches to the Scrolls

  • Rhetorical criticism and the reading of the Qumran Scrolls / Carol A. Newsom
  • Roland Barthes and the teacher of righteousness : the death of the author of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Maxine L. Grossman
  • The Scrolls and the legal definition of authorship / Hector L. MacQueen

External links

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