Table of Contents

Abbreviations List of Images and Figures List of Contributors Introduction - George J. Brooke and Charlotte Hempel I. Background Discoveries - Hans Debel Archaeology of Qumran - Dennis Mizzi Manuscript Collections: An Overview - Mladen Popovic Publication Process - Weston Fields and son Scholarly and Popular Reception - Matthew Collins II. Context Ethnicity: A Fresh Religious Context of the Scrolls - Robert Kugler The Yahad in the Context of Hellenistic Group Formation - Benedikt Eckhardt Regional Context of the Dead Sea - Joan E. Taylor Qumran and the Ancient Near East - Henryk Drawnel Scrolls and Early Judaism - George J. Brooke Scrolls and Early Christianity - Albert Hogeterp Scrolls and Hellenistic Jewish Literature a. Philo - Joan E. Taylor b. Josephus - James McLaren c. Other Literature - Matthias Henze Scrolls and non-Jewish Hellenistic Literature - Jutta Leonhardt Balzer III. Methods Physicality of Manuscripts and Material Culture - Ingo Kottsieper Scientific Technologies - Ingo Kottsieper Reading and Reconstructing Manuscripts - Annette Steudel Languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek - Holger Gzella Biblical Scholarship and Qumran Studies - Reinhard G. Kratz Scrolls and the Study of the Ancient World - Benjamin Wright Historiography - Philip R. Davies Social Scientific Approaches a. Sectarianism - David Chalcraft b. Sociolinguistics - Trine Hasselbach c. Identity Theory - Lloyd Pietersen Postmodern and Poststructuralist Questions - Maxine Grossman IV. Key Texts Aramaic Job - David Shepherd Aramaic Levi - Vered Hillel Authoritative Scriptures: Torah and Related Texts - Katell Berthelot Authoritative Scriptures: Prophets and Related Texts - Roman Vielhauer Authoritative Scriptures: Writings and Related Texts - Ulrich Dahmen Authoritative Scriptures: Other - Kelley Coblentz Bautch and Jack Weinbender Barkhi Nafshi - Daniel Falk Bar Kokhba Letters - Lutz Doering Beatitudes - Dorothy Peters Berakhot - Daniel Falk Commentaries on Genesis - George J. Brooke Copper Scroll - Jesper Høgenhaven Damascus Document (D) - Liora Goldman Genesis Apocryphon - Daniel Machiela Hodayot (H) - Angela Kim Harkins Instruction - Benjamin Wold Messianic Apocalypse - Eric Mason Mil?amah (M) - Brian Schultz Miq?at Ma?ase ha-Torah (MMT) - Hanne von Weissenberg Mysteries - Samuel Thomas New Jerusalem - Michael Langlois Pesharim - Shani Tzoref Rule of Blessings (Sb) - Judith Newman Rule of Congregation (Sa) - Corrado Martone Serekh ha-Yahad (S) - Stephen Hultgren Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice - Judith Newman Son of God Text - Eric Mason Tan?umim - Jesper Hogenhaven Temple Scroll - Joseph Angel Testimonia - Eva Mroczek Wiles of Wicked Woman - Michael Lesley Words of the Luminaries - Judith Newman V. Types of Literature Bible - Mika Pajunen Parabiblical Texts /Rewritten Scripture - Molly Zahn Exegesis and Interpretation - Michael Segal Halakhah - Vered Noam Rules - Charlotte Hempel Poetry and Hymns - Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra Liturgical Texts - Daniel Falk Calendars - Helen Jacobus Wisdom - Matthew Goff Mystical Texts, Magic, and Divination - Gideon Bohak VI. Issues and Topics Patriarchs and Aramaic Traditions - Ariel Feldman Revelation - Hindy Najman and Nick Hilton God(s), Angels and Demons - Hanne von Weissenberg Eschatologies and Messianisms - Kenneth E. Pomykala Jerusalem and the Temple - Mila Ginsburskaya Purity and Holiness - Cecilia Wassen The Scribes of the Scrolls - Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar Forms of Community - Alison Schofield Daily Life - Cecilia Wassen Ethics and Dualism - Marcus Tso War and Violence -Alex Jassen APPENDICES A-G - Drew Longacre, Michael DeVries Index - Michael DeVries

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George J. Brooke is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, UK. Charlotte Hempel is a Reader in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Reviews

Remarkable for its breadth and substantial treatment of the history and current state of scholarship in Qumran studies ... An indispensable resource for library collections and any individual scholar whose work touches on the texts discovered in the Judean desert.
*Journal of Jewish Studies*

The Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls is innovative in its approach as it explores categories of information that have not been covered in the past, with regard to both individual compositions and new areas of research. The editors have succeeded in bringing together a young team of eminent expert scholars who present the state-of-the-art results of modern scholarship for the beginning student and experienced scholar alike.
*Emanuel Tov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel*

‘This superb new volume on the Dead Sea Scrolls will be a vital resource for scholars in the field. In addition to containing the usual overview articles, the Companion contains short treatments of over thirty of the major texts. The authors, who include scholars from Britain and other European countries, Israel, and North America, are all experts in the field. The T&T Clark Companion is a “must-have” for any serious Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
*Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA*