The Dead Scrolls in Their Historical Context (2000 Lim), edited volume

The Dead Scrolls in Their Historical Context (2000) is a volume edited by Timothy H. Lim.

Editions and translations

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

Table of contents

• The Dead Sea sect and other Jews: commonalities, overlaps and differences / Ed Parish Sanders
• The wicked priest or the liar? / Timothy H. Lim
• What did you go out to see?: John the Baptist, the Scrolls and late Second Temple Judaism / [[J. Ian H. McDonald]
• The Qumran Biblical scrolls: the scriptures of late Second Temple Judaism / Eugene C. Ulrich
• [[Qumran evidence for a Biblical standard text and for non-standard and parabiblical texts / Julio Trebolle Barrera
• E pluribus unum: textual variety and definitive interpretation in the Qumran scrolls / George J. Brooke
• Halakhah and sectarianism in the Dead Sea scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman
• The story of Joseph and the Book of Jubilees / Calum M. Carmichael
• Sabbatical chronologies in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature / James C. VanderKam
• [[Qumran calendars: theory and practice / Sacha Stern
• The place of the Book of Jubilees at Qumran and beyond / Charlotte Hempel
• The nature of messianism in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins
• Judaisms in the Dead Sea scrolls: the case of the Messiah / Philip R. Davies
• The branch in the last days: observations on the new covenant before and after the Messiah / Håkan Ulfgard
• The Dead Sea scrolls and merkavah mysticism / James R. Davila