T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls

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.

• AbbreviationsList of Images and FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction - George J. Brooke and Charlotte Hempel I. Background Discoveries - Hans DebelArchaeology of Qumran - Dennis MizziManuscript Collections: An Overview - Mladen PopovicPublication Process - Weston Fields and sonScholarly and Popular Reception - Matthew CollinsII. ContextEthnicity: A Fresh Religious Context of the Scrolls - Robert KuglerThe Yahad in the Context of Hellenistic Group Formation - Benedikt EckhardtRegional Context of the Dead Sea - Joan E. TaylorQumran and the Ancient Near East - Henryk DrawnelScrolls and Early Judaism - George J. BrookeScrolls and Early Christianity - Albert HogeterpScrolls and Hellenistic Jewish Literaturea. Philo - Joan E. Taylorb. Josephus - James McLaren c. Other Literature - Matthias HenzeScrolls and non-Jewish Hellenistic Literature - Jutta Leonhardt BalzerIII. Methods Physicality of Manuscripts and Material Culture - Ingo KottsieperScientific Technologies - Ingo KottsieperReading and Reconstructing Manuscripts - Annette SteudelLanguages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek - Holger GzellaBiblical Scholarship and Qumran Studies - Reinhard G. KratzScrolls and the Study of the Ancient World - Benjamin WrightHistoriography - Philip R. DaviesSocial Scientific Approaches a. Sectarianism - David Chalcraftb. Sociolinguistics - Trine Hasselbachc. Identity Theory - Lloyd PietersenPostmodern and Poststructuralist Questions - Maxine GrossmanIV. Key Texts Aramaic Job - David ShepherdAramaic Levi - Vered HillelAuthoritative Scriptures: Torah and Related Texts - Katell BerthelotAuthoritative Scriptures: Prophets and Related Texts - Roman VielhauerAuthoritative Scriptures: Writings and Related Texts - Ulrich DahmenAuthoritative Scriptures: Other - Kelley Coblentz Bautch and Jack WeinbenderBarkhi Nafshi - Daniel FalkBar Kokhba Letters - Lutz DoeringBeatitudes - Dorothy PetersBerakhot - Daniel FalkCommentaries on Genesis - George J. BrookeCopper Scroll - Jesper HøgenhavenDamascus Document (D) - Liora GoldmanGenesis Apocryphon - Daniel MachielaHodayot (H) - Angela Kim HarkinsInstruction - Benjamin WoldMessianic Apocalypse - Eric MasonMil?amah (M) - Brian SchultzMiq?at Ma?ase ha-Torah (MMT) - Hanne von WeissenbergMysteries - Samuel ThomasNew Jerusalem - Michael LangloisPesharim - Shani TzorefRule of Blessings (Sb) - Judith NewmanRule of Congregation (Sa) - Corrado MartoneSerekh ha-Yahad (S) - Stephen HultgrenSongs of the Sabbath Sacrifice - Judith NewmanSon of God Text - Eric MasonTan?umim - Jesper HogenhavenTemple Scroll - Joseph AngelTestimonia - Eva MroczekWiles of Wicked Woman - Michael LesleyWords of the Luminaries - Judith NewmanV. Types of Literature Bible - Mika PajunenParabiblical Texts /Rewritten Scripture - Molly ZahnExegesis and Interpretation - Michael SegalHalakhah - Vered NoamRules - Charlotte HempelPoetry and Hymns - Daniel Stökl Ben EzraLiturgical Texts - Daniel FalkCalendars - Helen JacobusWisdom - Matthew GoffMystical Texts, Magic, and Divination - Gideon BohakVI. Issues and Topics Patriarchs and Aramaic Traditions - Ariel FeldmanRevelation - Hindy Najman and Nick HiltonGod(s), Angels and Demons - Hanne von WeissenbergEschatologies and Messianisms - Kenneth E. PomykalaJerusalem and the Temple - Mila GinsburskayaPurity and Holiness - Cecilia WassenThe Scribes of the Scrolls - Eibert J. C. TigchelaarForms of Community - Alison SchofieldDaily Life - Cecilia WassenEthics and Dualism - Marcus TsoWar and Violence -Alex JassenAPPENDICES A-G - Drew Longacre, Michael DeVriesIndex - Michael DeVries

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.