Category:Qumran Studies--1980s

Qumran Studies (1980s) The page: Qumran Studies--1980s, includes (in chronological order) fictional and literary works in the field of Qumran Studies made in the 1980s, or from 1980 and 1989. John Strugnell Florentino Garcia Martinez Highlights (1980s) (+) The Hymns of Qumran (1981 Kittel), book Les esséniens selon leur témoignage direct (1982 Laperrousaz), book (+) The Temple Scroll = Die Tempelrolle vom Toten Meer (1985 @1978 Maier / White), book (English ed.) (+) The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul (1985 Newton), book The Temple Scroll: The Hidden Law of the Dead Sea Sect (1985 Yadin), book (+) Behind the Essenes (1987 Davies), book (++) The Qumran Community (1987 Knibb), book (+) The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 3rd ed. (1987 Vermès), book (+) Josephus' Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls (1988 Beall), book The Spiritual History of the Dead Sea Sect (1989 Flusser), book (English ed.) Interpreters (1980s) David Flusser (1917-2000) Yigael Yadin (1917-1984) Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz (1924-2013) John Strugnell (1930-2007) Michael A. Knibb (1938-) Florentino García Martínez (1942-) Philip R. Davies (1945-2018)

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History of Research (1980s) -- Notes

In 1982, volume 7 of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series was published, with more fragments from Cave 4. In September 1984 Pierre Benoit retired due to poor health from his responsibilities as editor-in-chief of the International Team and the DJD series. John Strugnell (Harvard University) was the new appointee and in an attempt to revive the efforts the International Team was expanded to 20 members. It did not help much. No other volume was published in the 1980s in the DJD series.

Besides some new collections of Scrolls in modern translation (Knibb, Vermes), the most interesting works produced in the 1980s (by Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz, David Flusser, Philip R. Davies, and Todd S. Beall) offered a reassessment of the evidence about the Essenes living in the land of Israel according to the testimony of ancient authors.

Frustration about the delay in the publication of the scrolls mounted in the public opinion and in the scholarly community. The International Organization for Qumran Studies (IOQS) was founded in the summer of 1989 in Groningen at an international conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, at the initiative of Florentino Garcia Martinez.