The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Volume 1, Scripture and the Scrolls

by James H. Charlesworth

Overview

The recovery of 800 documents in the eleven caves on the northwest shores of the Dead Sea is one of the most sensational archeological discoveries in the Holy Land to date. These three volumes, the very best of critical scholarship, demonstrate in detail how the scrolls have revolutionized our knowledge of the text of the Bible, the character of Second Temple Judaism, and the Jewish beginnings of Christianity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932792751
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2006
Series:	Bile and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Edition description:	The Princeton Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

J.H. Charlesworth is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Editor and Director of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Dead Sea Scrolls:

Their Discovery and Challenge to Biblical Studies, James H. Charlesworth

Chapter 1: The Impact of the Judean Desert Scrolls on Issues of Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible, James A. Sanders

Chapter 2: Qumran and the Enoch Groups:

Revisiting the Enochic-Essene Hypothesis, Gabriele Boccaccini

Chapter 3: The Biblical Scrolls from Qumran and the Canonical Text, Frank Moore Cross

Chapter 4: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Scriptural Texts, Eugene C. Ulrich

Chapter 5: The Formation and Re-Formation of Daniel in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Chapter 6: The Rewritten Bible at Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford

Chapter 7: Qumran and a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible, Ronald S. Hendel

Chapter 8: 4QSama (= 4Q51), the Canon, and the Community of Lay Readers, Donald W. Parry

Chapter 9: Three Sobriquets, Their Meaning and Function: The Wicked Priest, Synagogue of Satan, and the Woman Jezebel, Håkan Bengtsson

Chapter 10: The Biblical and Qumranic Concept of War, Philip R. Davies

Chapter 11: Psalms and Psalters in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Peter W. Flint

Chapter 12: The Importance of Isaiah at Qumran, J. J. M. Roberts

Chapter 13: Biblical Interpretation at Qumran, George J. Brooke

What People are Saying About This

James H. Charlesworth has assembled a stellar gathering of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars in these rich volumes. They will make a lasting and profoundly significant contribution to the understanding of the greatest archeological find of modern times and the light it throws on the Bible.

Michael E. Stone

James H. Charlesworth has assembled a stellar gathering of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars in these rich volumes. They will make a lasting and profoundly significant contribution to the understanding of the greatest archeological find of modern times and the light it throws on the Bible.

Adolfo Roitman

These three volumes containing fresh and updated research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible, the Qumran community, and early Christianity, written by renown scholars from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel, and edited by one of the world's leading scholars, promise to be a major and definitive contribution to scholarship.

Martin Hengel

The three-volume edition Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls will become a milestone for Old and New Testament research. The authors are leading scholars in this field and no other publication has collected so many interesting contributions about the largest finding of biblical and Jewish texts in the last century.

Editorial Reviews

James H. Charlesworth has assembled a stellar gathering of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars in these rich volumes. They will make a lasting and profoundly significant contribution to the understanding of the greatest archeological find of modern times and the light it throws on the Bible.

--Michael E. Stone, Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Comparative Religion, Professor of Armenian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The three-volume edition Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls will become a milestone for Old and New Testament research. The authors are leading scholars in this field and no other publication has collected so many interesting contributions about the largest finding of biblical and Jewish texts in the last century.

--Martin Hengel, University of Tubingen

These three volumes containing fresh and updated research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible, the Qumran community, and early Christianity, written by renown scholars from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel, and edited by one of the world's leading scholars, promise to be a major and definitive contribution to scholarship.

--Adolfo Roitman, Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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