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The Dead Sea scrolls in their historical context / edited by Timothy H. Lim [and others].

By: University of Edinburgh. Centre for Christian Origins
Contributor(s): Lim, Timothy H
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : T&T Clark, 2000Description: ix, 309 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 056708759X (pbk.); 0567087077Subject(s): Dead Sea scrolls | Qumran community | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Textual | Book of Jubilees -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 296.155 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-292) and indexes.
Contents:
The Dead Sea sect and other Jews : commonalities, overlaps and differences / E. P. 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.

Papers from a conference held on May 5-6, 1998, New College, Edinburgh, hosted by the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Edinburgh under the aegis of the Centre for Christian Studies. (Preface)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-292) and indexes.

The Dead Sea sect and other Jews : commonalities, overlaps and differences / E. P. 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.

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