T&t Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hardcover)

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 Stokl 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