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
- (with Michael E. Stone). Pseudepigraphical Perspectives: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Leiden 1999)
- The Damascus Document: A Centennial of Discovery (2000 Baumgarten/Chazon), edited volume
- Liturgical Perspectives: Prayers and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Leiden 2003)
- (et al.). Things Revealed (Leiden 2004)
- (with Deborah Dimant). Reworking the Bible at Qumran in the Context of Second Temple Judaism (Leiden 2005)