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The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library (2016) is a volume edited by Sidnie White Crawford and Cecilia Wassen.

Abstract

"The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library presents twelve articles by renowned experts in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies. These articles explore from various angles the question of whether or not the collection of manuscripts found in the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran can be characterized as a “library,” and, if so, what the relation of that library is to the ruins of Qumran and the group of Jews that inhabited them. The essays fall into the following categories: the collection as a whole, subcollections within the overall corpus, and the implications of identifying the Qumran collection as a library."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2016 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 116).

Table of contents

Part 1. General studies.

• The library of Qumran in recent scholarship / Devorah Dimant
• On being a 'librarian': labels, categories, and classifications / Årstein Justnes

Part 2. The Greco-Roman context.

• Greek and Roman libraries in the Hellenistic age / Monica Berti
• The Qumran "library" and other ancient libraries: elements for a comparison / Corrado Martone
• Is Qumran a library? / Ian Werrett

Part 3. The collection as a whole and the question of a library.

• The Qumran collection as a scribal library / Sidnie White Crawford
• The linguistic diversity of the texts found at Qumran / Stephen Reed -- Plates
• The ancient 'library' of Qumran between urban and rural culture / Mladen Popovic
• The ancient "library" or "libraries" of Qumran: the specter of Cave 1Q / Stephen Pfann

Part 4. Collections within the collection: specific evidence for a "library?

• Calendars in the Qumran collection / Helen R. Jacobus
• The Aramaic Dead Sea scrolls: coherence and context in the library of Qumran / Daniel A. Machiela

part 5. Implications for the identification of the Qumran collection as a library.

• The Qumran library in context: the canonical history and textual standardization of the Hebrew Bible in light of the Qumran library / Armin Lange.

External links

• [ Google Books]