Harper Collins, 1999. — 672 p. — ISBN 0-06-060063-2, 0-06-060064-0. This volume contains a wealth of detail from these ancient biblical manuscripts, all presented in a way that is readily accessible to the specialist and nonspecialist alike. Thanks to the great labors of Abegg, Flint, and Ulrich, we can now see at a glance both the various forms the scriptural texts took 2,000...
Brill, 2010. — xiv, 382 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 86). Departing from scholarship dedicated to the socio-historical realities of priesthood at Qumran, this book explores, in two parts, the most pervasive literary representations of priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a reflection of the religious worldview of the Qumran community and broader segments...
Yale University Press, 2024.— 313 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-28118-7 A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms—even so, civilizations have built ancient...
Brill, 2006. — x, 270 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 60). This volume investigates the layers of meaning of the Qumran community's liturgical practice as prayer (communication with the divine), ritual (actions that establish and reinforce the social and ideological structures of the community), and speech (containing both verbal and non-verbal...
Brill, 2023. — 200 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 143). Chapter 1 Beyond the Limits of Wisdom Chapter 2 Redefining the Sage Chapter 3 Continuous Study Chapter 4 The Dynamics of Revelation Chapter 5 Rāz Nihyeh
Brill, 2000. — x, 230 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 34). Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 4-8 February, 1998. The papers published in this volume were presented at the Third International Orion Symposium (1998), to mark the centennial of the...
Brill, 2022. — 296 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 136). Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present book augments these methods to a full-scale protocol, while adapting...
Brill, 2004. — xviii, 358 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume 53). The underlying premise of this study is the close relationship between Pesher Nahum (4Q169) and its biblical base-text. Historical and literary considerations, as well as theological, sociological, halakhic, textual, and linguistic data, are examined in terms of their exegetical functions....
Brill, 2001. — xiv, 394 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 39). The book is concerned with the concept of time in the Bible and in later literature, primarily that of the Judaean Desert sect. By the term “concept of time” the author refers to the entire complex of issues relating to time, as follows from our involvement in the writings of the corpus. The...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 672 p. — (Bloomsbury Companions). — ISBN: 978-0567590220. The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century. They have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance, not least in relation to the transmission of many of the books which came to be included in the Hebrew Bible. This companion...
Brill, 2012. — 285 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 103) Recent Dead Sea Scrolls research pays much attention to the question which texts were seen as scriptures, in which forms scriptures as well as scriptural traditions were transmitted, how the scrolls can illuminate the gradual move from authoritative scriptural texts to canon, and which different...
Baylor University Press, 2006. — 1598 p. — ISBN: 1932792341. 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...
Brill, 2003. — xii, 284 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 48). Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 19-23 January, 2000. The papers published in this volume were presented at the Fifth Orion International Symposium (Jerusalem, 2000), which focused on prayer...
Brill, 2010. — xii, 260 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 88). Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11 January, 2005. This volume presents new perspectives on the ancient texts discovered at Qumran. The essays offer fresh insights into particular texts and...
Brill, 1999. — viii, 220 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 31). This volume of symposium papers examines the attribution of books to great figures in antiquity: Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Levi, Moses, Ezekiel, Daniel and others. The authors offer fine literary studies of these pseudepigraphical writings, assess the uses of pseudonymity and anonymity in the...
Brill, 2018. — xiv, 308 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 127). Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 28-30 May, 2013. The Dead Sea Scrolls offer a window onto the rich theological landscape of Judaism in the Second Temple period. Through careful textual...
Brill, 2007. — x, 330 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 71). The Orion Center Bibliography of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature (2000–2006) is the fifth official Scrolls bibliography, following volumes covering the periods 1948-1957 (W. S. LaSor), 1958-1969 (B. Jongeling), 1970-1995 (F. García Martínez and D. W. Parry), and 1995-2000 (A....
Eerdmans, 2010. — XIV, 298 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8028-3223-8. John J. Collins here offers an up-to-date review of Jewish messianic expectations around the time of Jesus, in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls.He breaks these expectations down into categories: Davidic, priestly, and prophetic. Based on a small number of prophetic oracles and reflected in the various titles and names...
Sheffield Academic Press, 1991. — 173 p. — (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 9). Revealing insights on the religious views of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls have profoundly changed the way we think about the Bible. But what is the religion found in the Scrolls themselves' This book provides a much-needed assessment of several major...
Eerdmans, 2000. - X, 168 p. - (Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature). Revealing insights on the religious views of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls have profoundly changed the way we think about the Bible. But what is the religion found in the Scrolls themselves' This book provides a much-needed assessment of several major aspects of the religion of...
Oxford University Press, 2014. - 768 p. In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the first discovery. That occasion was marked...
Brill, 2019. — xx, 392 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 130). This volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. The volume is introduced by an overview of the Qumran evidence for text and canon of the Bible. Most of the text critical studies deal with texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, including sectarian as well as...
(Lives of Great Religious Books). Princeton University Press. 2012 - 288 p. Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Jesus,...
Brill, 2015. — vi, 350 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 116). The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library presents twelve articles by renowned experts in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies. These articles explore from various angles the question of whether or not the collection of manuscripts found in the eleven caves in the...
Brill, 2003. — xvi, 344 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 46). Papers from an International Conference at St. Andrews in 2001. The International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity (St. Andrews, Scotland, 2001) gathered scholars from a wide range of specialties and perspectives from around the...
Brill, 2014. — 373 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 111). The Cave 4 Apocryphon of Jeremiah C from Qumran survives in several copies, and presents significant links between the prophet Jeremiah, the scriptural book of Jeremiah, and the collectors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Because the prophet is only occasionally named in the Scrolls, and there are only a few...
Brill, 2015. — xxvi, 985 p. Dead Sea Scrolls Handbook presents Hebrew and Aramaic transcriptions of approximately 450 non-biblical texts from Qumran, arranged according to the sequential number of the composition and the Qumran Cave. Thus, the texts are arranged as follows: 1Q14, 1QpHab, 1Q15, 1Q16, 1Q17, and so forth. This arrangement provides straightforward access to the...
Brill, 1992. — 371 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume 10). A fortieth anniversary is an occasion to be marked under any circumstances, especially when it concerns a discovery as significant as that of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The proper way to mark this occasion was to organize a symposium that would be as comprehensive as possible, both in content and in...
Brill, 2012. — xxii, 686 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 99). The volume consists of 27 surveys of research into the Dead Sea Scrolls in the past 60 years, written by 26 authors. An innovation of the volume is that it covers Qumran scholarship in separate countries: the USA, Canada, Israel, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Italy...
Brill, 2020. — xiv, 478 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 133). Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 24-26 October 2017. The essays in Sacred Texts and Disparate Interpretations cover an array of core themes from various areas of Qumran studies, including textual criticism of the Hebrew...
Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Oslo 1998. Published in Memory of Maurice Baillet. — Brill, 2000. — xx, 282 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 35). At the third meeting of the International Organisation for Qumran Studies, held in Oslo in 1998, a variety of papers were presented concerning the study...
Brill, 2021. — xiv, 424 p. (14 ill.) — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 134). Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira. The 21 essays in this volume deal with the language and text of Hebrew corpora from the Second Temple period. They were originally presented at the Eighth International Symposium on the Hebrew...
Studies in the Textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke. — Brill, 2017. — 599 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 119). This volume is offered as a tribute to George Brooke to mark his sixty-fifth birthday. It has been conceived as a coherent contribution to the question of textuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls explored from a wide...
Walter De Gruyter Inc., 2014. — 383 р.
Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are texts which rewrite the Hebrew Bible. They differ from the literary products of the Qumran ascetic community by missing the sectarian particular style and terminology. These rewritten Bible texts may therefore shed light on the origins and sources of this community. Most of the scholarly attention has been...
Brill, 2017. — xvi, 362 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 118). Proceedings of the International Conference, Lugano 2014. In Qumran studies, the attention of scholars has largely been focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls, while archaeology has concentrated above all on the settlement. This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference...
Brill, 2006. — xii, 212 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 62). Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7-9 January, 2003. The studies in this volume examine the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls with early rabbinic literature. This is a particularly rich...
Brill, 2006. — x, 310 p., 145 ill. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57). Today, archaeology plays an ever growing role in Qumran studies. Fifteen papers presented in 2002 at Brown University provide the necessary data to break new ground in the recent debate about the character of Qumran. Section I discusses material from old and new excavations that help assess...
Brill, 2006. — x, 378 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 61). This volume consists of nineteen essays, written by internationally renowned scholars such as George Brooke, John Collins, Heinz-Josef Fabry, André Lemaire, Julio Trebolle, Emanuel Tov, James VanderKam and others, presented to Émile Puech, palaeographer and Dead Sea Scrolls specialist, on the...
Leiden; New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1992. — xvi, 233 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume 9). — ISBN 90-04-09586-1. The present volume contains a selection of studies on the Aramaic texts from Qumran, originally published in Spanish but thoroughly revised here, which investigate the contributions made by the Qumran manuscripts to the study of the...
Brill, 2007. — xviii, 326 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 63). Qumranica Minora I: Qumran Origins and Apocalypticism brings together the author’s much discussed articles on the so-called “Groningen Hypothesis” (an hypothesis about the origins of the Qumran Community in relation to the parent Essene movement and Palestinian apocalyptic movements), as well as a...
Brill, 2007. — xiv, 306 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 64). Qumranica Minora II: Thematic Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls brings together fourteen previously published studies of Florentino García Martínez on a variety of thematic topics from the Dead Sea Scrolls, including English translations of essays that were hitherto only available in French or Spanish....
Brill, 2012. — xviii, 580 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 101). The function of the participle within the Hebrew tense system has considerably changed between biblical and postbiblical Hebrew. This investigation studies the participle in the Hebrew manuscripts from the Judaean Desert, its formation, its usage, and its meaning, compared with those in...
Brill, 2017. — 420 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 122). Studies in Scriptural Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature in Honor of Moshe J. Bernstein. The eighteen studies in this volume in honor of Moshe Bernstein on the occasion of his 70th birthday mostly engage with Jewish scriptural interpretation, the principal theme of...
Brill, 2001 — x, 206 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 37). Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 27-31 January 1999. The papers published in this volume were presented at the Fourth Orion International Symposium (Jerusalem, 1999), whose focus was Jewish...
Brill, 2010. — xviii, 210 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 87). Much of the previous sixty years (1949-2009) have been devoted to the cleaning of the Dead Sea scrolls, their piecing together and their translation. The present volume is a scientific study of the various archaeological relics that have been found in the three units at Qumran: The settlement, the...
Brill, 2017. — 379 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 121). In Pesher and Hypomnema Pieter B. Hartog compares ancient Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Bible with papyrus commentaries on the Iliad. Hartog shows that members of the movement which produced and preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls adopted classical commentary writing and adapted it to their own...
Brill, 2018. — 233 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 125). Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (Munich, 4-7 August, 2013). The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities explores the use of methods, theories, and approaches from the humanities in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The volume...
Brill, 2014. — 436 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 110). — ISBN: 9789004276918 9789004277113. Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman’s guilt for the expulsion from the Garden and human’s calamities and the legal ramifications of her lower social and legal status...
Brill, 2020. — x, 267 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 132). In The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey, Jesper Høgenhavn presents a reading of the Copper Scroll as a literary text. For more than 60 years, scholars have debated whether or not the treasures recorded here reflect historical realities. This study argues that the dichotomy between...
Brill, 2007. — xvi, 624 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 66). The focus of this volume is a history of covenantal theology in the Dead Sea Scrolls. At the heart of the work the author provides new insight into the origins of the "new covenant in the land of Damascus" ("Damascus covenant") and of the Qumran community ("covenant of the community"). The...
Brill, 2014. — 382 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 109). Psalms or Psalter? This study creates a new, solid foundation for discussions on the psalm manuscripts found in the Judean Desert. A variety of explanatory models, statistics and synthetic hypotheses have already been produced in the course of numerous analyses and interpretations. However, the disparate...
Brill, 2007. — xvi, 452 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 68). This book is a comprehensive treatment of prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It begins by analyzing the re-presentation of the classical prophets and their revelatory experience in an attempt to identify how prophecy and revelation was reconceptualized in the Dead Sea Scrolls in...
Brill, 2019. — xvi, 290 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 128). Papers from the Ninth Meeting of the International Organisation for Qumran Studies, Leuven 2016. Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of legal texts and issues in early Judaism, the essays in this collection examine halakhic and rule texts found at Qumran in light of the...
Brill, 1971. — xiv, 140 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 7). This systematic bibliography covers the years 1958-1969 and consequently continues the work of W. S. LaSor, Bibliograpf?y of the Dead Sea Scrolls 1948-1957, Pasadena, Calif. 1958. Sometimes publications from the period before 1958 have been listed, especially in the case of serial works,...
Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira at Strasbourg University, June 2014. — Brill, 2018. — 291 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume 124). The present volume of proceedings offers cutting-edge research on the Hebrew language in the late Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Fourteen...
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Jointly Sponsored by the Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity, 22–24 February, 2011. — Brill, 2015. — xvi, 392 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 113). Many types of tradition and interpretation...
Brill, 2009. — xiv, 314 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 80). Structured by four important themes, the book discusses various aspects pertaining to the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first theme is comprised by a number of essays that deal with different aspects of textual interpretation of particular Qumran writings. The second theme centers on...
Brill, 1968. — viii, 208 p., 11 facs. plates, 3 figures, 3 maps. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 5). Unerhört rasch haben die Papyrusfunde aus dem Vorderen Orient zugenommen. Seit nunmehr 20 Jahren sind hunderte Rollen und tausende Fragmente - auch aus Leder - in den Schluchten und Höhlen der judäischen Wüste entdeckt worden. Die am Nordwestufer des...
Brill, 2013. — xii, 212 p. — (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, Volume: 61). In The Qumran Manuscripts of Lamentations: A Text-Critical Study, the first large-scale investigation of the topic, Gideon Kotzé establishes how the four Lamentations manuscripts from Qumran present the content of the biblical book. Kotzé takes as his point of departure the contributions of the Dead Sea...
Brill, 2017. — 134 p. — (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 173). In Leviticus at Qumran: Text and Interpretation Robert A. Kugler and Kyung S. Baek provide an indispensable reference work for understanding how the Book of Leviticus shaped the people of Qumran and their texts. Focusing on issues central to the Qumran community’s identity—sacrifice, priesthood, purity, and...
Brill, 2011 — 1014 p. — (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 140). — ISBN 10: 9004189033 / ISBN 13: 9789004189034. The Dead Sea Scrolls enrich many areas of biblical research, as well as the study of ancient and rabbinic Judasim, early Christian and other ancient literatures, languages, and cultures. With nearly all Dead Sea Scrolls published, it is now time to integrate the Dead...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 152 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Everyone has heard of of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but amidst the conspiracies, the politics, and the sensational claims, it can be difficult to separate myth from reality. Here, Timothy Lim explores the cultural and historical background of the scrolls, and examines their significance for our understanding of...
Brill, 2022. — 477 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 140). Table of contents Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables, and Charts Abbreviations 1 Introduction: The Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves and the Parameters of this Study 1 The Current State of Research: The Aramaic Scrolls in the Context of Qumran and Second Temple Judaism 2 Delineating...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002. — 284 p. The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most interesting and important archaeological discoveries ever made, and the excavation of the Qumran community itself has provided invaluable information about Judaism and the Jewish world in the last centuries B.C.E. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, however, the Qumran site continues to be the object...
Leiden; New York; Köln: Brill, 1999. — 1386 p. This book is intended as a practical tool to facilitate access to the Qumran collection of Dead Sea Scrolls. As such, it is primarily intended for classroom use and for the benefit of specialists from other disciplines (scholars working on the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament or Rabbinic literature, specialists on Semitic languages,...
Brill, 2008. — xiv, 230 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 74). Scholars have long questioned the conceptual background for the priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, with suggestions including Gnosticism, the thought of Philo of Alexandria, common themes in early Christian theology and exegesis, and the creativity of the author of Hebrews...
Brill, 1975. — xii, 71 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 8). It has been more than twenty-five years now since the discovery of the Qumran manuscripts near Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest coast of the Dead Sea. Yet, interest in these materials has hardly abated and, in fact, literature is still being constantly produced dealing with all aspects of...
Brill, 1997. — xii, 200 p., 13 ill. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 21). This volume is concerned with tracing the different stages in the formation of the Qumran Community Rule in the light of the material from Cave 4 that has only recently become available. The first part of this ground-breaking work is devoted to determining the differences between...
Brill, 2019. — xx, 321 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 129). In Dead Sea Media Shem Miller offers a groundbreaking media criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Although past studies have underappreciated the crucial roles of orality and memory in the social setting of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Miller convincingly demonstrates that oral performance, oral...
Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 2020. — 449 p. This is the first, comprehensive description of the syntax of Qumran Hebrew, a language in which the Hebrew documents discovered in the eleven Qumran caves and at some sites in the Judaean desert are written. Features described include, for instance, the values and functions of the status constructus, tense, aspect and mood of the verb,...
Brill, 2000. — x, 310 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 36). Proceedings of a Third International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira. The accelerated publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls makes it essential for scholars working with these texts to have reliable and up-to-date information over the nature of Qumran Hebrew and...
Brill, 1999. — viii, 366 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 33). Following a successful symposium held in Leiden in 1995 a second international gathering took place, also in Leiden, two years later. The volume contains revised papers covering a wide range of linguistic and textual subjects and presented by scholars from eight countries: Austria...
Brill, 1997. — x, 222 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 26). In December 1995 an international symposium was held in Leiden, concerning the subject of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the book of Ben Sira. The papers, presented at this symposium, are collected in this volume. The papers deal with various aspects of grammar, syntax, and lexicon of Hebrew...
Brill, 2002. — xxii, 688 p., 10 ill. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 40). This volume is concerned with exploring sectarian attitudes toward wealth and the economic practices that gave rise to and issued from those attitudes. An introductory chapter establishes the state of the question. Three subsequent chapters focus on major sectarian texts: the...
Brill, 2004. — x, 382 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 52). This volume investigates critical practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society. Key to the formation of the community was the reconstruction of the identity of individual members. In this way the “self” became an important symbolic space for the development...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. - 457 p. - (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 157).
This volume includes papers on different topics of textual criticism of the Bible, history of the Hebrew text and the Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls studies, contributed by friends and colleagues of Julio Trebolle Barrera to honour him on the occasion of his 65th birthday....
Brill, 2018. — xii + 231 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 126). Converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls examines the meaning of the term gēr in the Dead Sea Scrolls. While often interpreted as a resident alien, this study of the term as it is employed within scriptural rewriting in the Dead Sea Scrolls concludes that the gēr is a Gentile convert to Judaism....
Brill, 1996. — x, 279 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 20). Conference on the Texts from the Judean Desert, Jerusalem, 30 April 1995. Contributors: Frank Moore Cross, Donald Parry, Torleif Elgvin, Dana Pike, David Rolph Seely, Scott Woodward, Gila Kahila, Patricia Smith, Charles Greenblatt, Joe Zias, Magen Broshi, Steven Booras, Eugene Ulrich,...
Brill, 2017. — 210 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 120). The Leonardo Museum Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, 11-12 April 2014. Contrary to the generally held view, the Second Temple Era was not a time of prophetic dormancy, but of genuine activity, though of a different character than that of the pre-exilic age. The conference on The Prophetic...
Brill, 2012. — xxv, 482 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 98). Essays in Honor of Eileen Schuller on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday. The last major volume of articles devoted to the topic of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls comprised a collection of articles presented at a conference in the year 2000 (Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and...
Brill, 2012. — 272 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 104). In Patterns of Daily Prayer in Second Temple Period Judaism, Jeremy Penner seeks to uncover the historical and social processes that underlie the origins and development of Jewish daily prayer practices, particularly the establishment of set times for daily prayer. Since daily prayer lacks...
Brill, 2015. — 240 p. — (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, Volume: 64). In The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the intervening...
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008. — xxiv, 248 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58983-390-6. As father of all humanity and not exclusively of Israel, Noah was a problematic ancestor for some Jews in the Second Temple period. His archetypical portrayals in the Dead Sea Scrolls, differently nuanced in Hebrew and Aramaic, embodied the tensions for groups that were struggling to...
Brill, 2015. — viii, 160 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 112). This book is the English translation of the new edition of the Copper Scroll of Qumran Cave 3 (3Q15). The restoration of the three sheets of copper by the Mécénat of the French Electric Company (EDF) in the 1990s made an improved decipherment possible. The physical restoration of the complete...
Brill, 2021. — xiv, 509 p. — (Dead Sea Scrolls Editions, Volume 1). In this volume, Schiffman and Gross present a new edition of all of the manuscript evidence for the Temple Scroll from Qumran. It includes innumerable new readings and restorations of all of the manuscripts as well as a detailed critical apparatus comparing the manuscripts of the Temple Scroll as well as Qumran...
Revised edition. — The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS), 2007. — 31 p. What is the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Why are they so important to our understanding of the Bible, Christianity and Judaism? Hershel Shanks shares the dramatic story of the discovery of the most intriguing Biblical archaeology find of the 20th century, the surprising tale of how they were...
Brill, 1998. — viii, 292 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 28). Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 May, 1996. This volume explores the use and interpretation of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated apocryphal, early Christian and rabbinic...
Penguin Books, 2004. — 716 с. Популярное в англоязычном мире издание переводов так называемых "рукописей Мёртвого моря" или "Кумранских рукописей", названных так по месту обнаружения. Случайно обнаруженные бедуинами в нескольких небольших пещерах свитки стали настоящей сенсацией в научной среде. Работа по публикации рукописей, начатая после обнаружения в 1947 году, затянулась...
Photographic reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll, 2010. - 54 p. The Isaiah Scroll, designated 1Qlsa a, and also known as the Great Isaiah Scroll, is one of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls that were first recovered by Bedouins in 1947 from Qumran Cave 1. The scroll is written in Hebrew and contains the entire Book of Isaiah from beginning to end, apart from a few small damaged...
Brill, 2016. — 259 p. — (Publications of Museum of the Bible 1). This volume contains thirteen previously unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, twelve Hebrew Bible fragments and one non-biblical fragment, presented with the full scholarly apparatus and advanced reconstruction techniques. The books from the Hebrew Bible are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Jeremiah,...
Brill, 1992. — xxvi, 362 p.; iv, pp. 363-684. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 11). Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid 18-21 March, 1991. Vol. 1-2. The material presented in these two volumes may be divided into two main sections. The first section covers biblical texts and texts which fall between the categories...
Brill, 2015. - 346 p. - (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 169) Eugene Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible the comprehensive and synthesized picture he has gained as editor of many biblical scrolls. His earlier volume, The Biblical Qumran Scrolls, presented the evidence — the transcriptions and textual variants of all the...
Brill, 2016. — xii, 360 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 117). In Turning Proverbs towards Torah, Elisa Uusimäki offers the first monograph on the early Jewish wisdom text 4Q525 from Qumran. Following the reconstruction of the fragmentary manuscript, Uusimäki analyses the text with a focus on the reception and renewal of the Proverbs tradition and the...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012. — 203 p. — ISBN 978-0-8028-6679-0 The substantial value of the Dead Sea Scrolls for biblical studies is well known. However, it can be difficult to remain on the cutting edge of Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship. In this volume leading expert James C. VanderKam offers detailed summaries of significant ways in which the scrolls can enrich the...
Brill, 2007. — xxx, 426 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 56). This volume examines twelve ancient and medieval manuscripts, ten from the caves at Qumran and the two so called Damascus Documents from the Cairo Geniza, presenting a new organization and understanding of these texts. The twelve manuscripts are in a composite form under the title Midrash...
Brill, 2005. — xiv, 258 p. — (SBL - Academia Biblica, Volume: 21). Women in the Damascus Document offers a fresh look at the nature of the community reflected in the Damascus Document, one of the core documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By presenting a close and comprehensive study of the references to women and in-depth analyses of biblically based laws in the document, this...
Brill, 1957. — x, 180 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 1). The so-called Manual of Discipline (1QS) was found in a cave (now called Cave 1) near Ain Feshkha by the Dead Sea in 1947 together with other scrolls and fragments of manuscripts, the main part of which has been made accessible to scholars in excellent facsimile editions 1). In order to...
Brill, 2007. — x, 350 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 72). This book represents the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran. Utilizing an independent approach to the relevant documents from Qumran, this study discusses the primary and secondary literature on...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 471 p. The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for reconstructing the life of the Teacher of Righteousness. Travis B. Williams'...
Leiden: Brill Academic, 2023. — 543 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 144). Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. This volume is designed to evaluate the status quaestionis of the Dead Sea Scrolls as products of an ancient media culture, with leading scholars in the Dead Sea...
Berlin, München, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. — 333 S. This book offers a concise introduction to the full range of writings in the Qumran: genuine, apocryphal, and pseudoepigraphic works as well as “Biblical” manuscripts. The basic knowledge regarding each work is cogently summarized and brief passages are presented verbatim. This approach allows each of the texts to speak for...
Brill, 2003. — xvi, 262 p. — (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 47). Among the newly published texts of the Qumran Library there are a good number with eschatological content. Some of these texts relate the eschatological activity of certain figures who seem to play an important role in the events of the eschaton. This study explores these figures. The...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 328 с. И. Д. Амусин - известный советский историк, археолог, кумранолог, научный сотрудник при Ленинградском отделении Института Археологии. С конца 1950-х годов полностью посвятил свою деятельность открытым незадолго до этого "рукописям Мертвого Моря", которые представляли собой древние свитки Священного Писания, устав кумранской общины, толкования...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 328 с. И. Д. Амусин - известный советский историк, археолог, кумранолог, научный сотрудник при Ленинградском отделении Института Археологии. С конца 1950-х годов полностью посвятил свою деятельность открытым незадолго до этого "рукописям Мертвого Моря", которые представляли собой древние свитки Священного Писания, устав кумранской общины, толкования...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы изд-ва «Наука», 1983. — 328 с. Социально-утопический характер кумранской общины (II в. до н. э.—I в. н. э.) и близость к ней раннего христианства придают этой общине важное значение для исследования социально-политической, религиозной и культурной истории Палестины на рубеже нашей эры, а также делают ее предметом острой идейной борьбы в...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы изд-ва «Наука», 1983. — 328 с. Социально-утопический характер кумранской общины (II в. до н. э.—I в. н. э.) и близость к ней раннего христианства придают этой общине важное значение для исследования социально-политической, религиозной и культурной истории Палестины на рубеже нашей эры, а также делают ее предметом острой идейной борьбы в...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы изд-ва «Наука», 1983. — 328 с. Социально-утопический характер кумранской общины (II в. до н. э.—I в. н. э.) и близость к ней раннего христианства придают этой общине важное значение для исследования социально-политической, религиозной и культурной истории Палестины на рубеже нашей эры, а также делают ее предметом острой идейной борьбы в...
М.: Наука, 1964. — 119 с. Случайное обстоятельство привело к величайшему в новое время открытию хранилищ древних рукописей. Они были обнаружены в пещерах пустынной местности Вади-Кумран, вблизи северо-западного побережья Мертвого моря (Иордания) в 1947 г. Кумранские рукописи доставили в распоряжение науки одно из недостающих звеньев в сложной цепи истории зарождения...
М.: Наука, 1964. — 119 с. Случайное обстоятельство привело к величайшему в новое время открытию хранилищ древних рукописей. Они были обнаружены в пещерах пустынной местности Вади-Кумран, вблизи северо-западного побережья Мертвого моря (Иордания) в 1947 г. Кумранские рукописи доставили в распоряжение науки одно из недостающих звеньев в сложной цепи истории зарождения...
Монография. — М.: Наука, 1964. — 119 с. Случайное обстоятельство привело к величайшему в новое время открытию хранилищ древних рукописей. Они были обнаружены в пещерах пустынной местности Вади-Кумран, вблизи северо-западного побережья Мертвого моря (Иордания) в 1947 г. Кумранские рукописи доставили в распоряжение науки одно из недостающих звеньев в сложной цепи истории...
М.: Наука, 1964. — 119 с. Случайное обстоятельство привело к величайшему в новое время открытию хранилищ древних рукописей. Они были обнаружены в пещерах пустынной местности Вади-Кумран, вблизи северо-западного побережья Мертвого моря (Иордания) в 1947 г. Кумранские рукописи доставили в распоряжение науки одно из недостающих звеньев в сложной цепи истории зарождения...
Москва: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1960. — 271 с. В книге рассказывается о находках древних рукописей в пещерах на берегах Мёртвого моря. Эти рукописи оказались ценнейшими документами, относящимися к III в. до н. э. – VIII в. н.э. Эти рукописи двухтысячелетней давности представили в распоряжение науки подлинные первоисточники для изучения древних социальных и...
М.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1960. — 271с. В книге рассказывается о находках древних рукописей в пещерах на берегах Мертвого моря. Эти рукописи оказались ценнейшими документами, относящимися к III в. до н. э. -VIII в. н. э. Эти рукописи двухтысячелетней давности представили в распоряжение науки подлинные первоисточники для изучения древних социальных и...
София: Мириам, 2006. — 276 с. — (Философският камък). През 1960 г. в Съветският съюз излиза от печат една изключително интересна и видимо предизвикателна за времето и мястото на издаването ѝ книга - Ръкописите от Мъртво море на Йосиф Амусин, руски историк, ориенталист и специалист по иврит и история на Кумран. Книгата е почти веднага продадена и въпреки повторното ѝ отпечатване...
3-е международное издание. — М.: Астрель, 2012. — 356 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-271-43696-3. Книга Джеймса Вандеркама, видного американского эксперта в области библейской литературы, пожалуй, лучшее на данный момент издание, рассказывающее об истории находки и содержании кумранских рукописей (свитков Мёртвого моря), включающих в себя самые древние образцы...
3-е международное издание. – М.: Астрель, 2012. – 356 с. – (Историческая библиотека). ISBN: 978-5-271-43696-3 Книга Джеймса Вандеркама, видного американского эксперта в области библейской литературы, пожалуй, лучшее на данный момент издание, рассказывающее об истории находки и содержании кумранских рукописей (свитков Мёртвого моря), включающих в себя самые древние образцы книг...
3-е международное издание. — М.: Астрель, 2012. — 356 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-271-43696-3. Книга Джеймса Вандеркама, видного американского эксперта в области библейской литературы, пожалуй, лучшее на данный момент издание, рассказывающее об истории находки и содержании кумранских рукописей (свитков Мёртвого моря), включающих в себя самые древние образцы...
СПб, 2002. - 444 стр.
А. Е. Грузов - редакция, состав, примечания, приложение.
Книга рукописей ленинградского историка, одного из пионеров отечественной кумранистики Н.Е. Зубер-Яникум (1925-1996) содержит очерк теории возникновения христианства. В нем содержится описание эволюции образа мессии и параллельное изменение статуса общины и развитие священных текстов.
Издательство политической литературы, 1964. — 112 с. На географической карте юго-восточного уголка Средиземноморья встречается множество древних названий, которые пестрят в библейских книгах: Иерусалим, Иордан, Иудейская пустыня, Мертвое море. Одно из них недавно привлекло внимание всего мира благодаря удивительным открытиям. Речь идет о находках древних рукописей, пролежавших...
М.: Издательство политической литературы, 1964. — 112 с.
На географической карте юго-восточного уголка Средиземноморья встречается множество древних названий, которые пестрят в библейских книгах: Иерусалим, Иордан, Иудейская пустыня, Мертвое море.
Одно из них недавно привлекло внимание всего мира благодаря удивительным открытиям. Речь идет о находках древних рукописей,...
Jhist.org, 2005. — 104 с. Иные написания имени автора: Пауэл Девис А., Пауэлл Дэвис А. Свитки Мертвого моря - одно из важнейших открытий XX века. Они способны полностью изменить традиционное понимание Библии, поскольку несут информацию о тридцати годах жизни Христа, о которых ранее ничего не было известно, и по-новому освещают период, непосредственно предшествовавший его...
Jhist.org, 2005. — 104 с. Иные написания имени автора: Пауэл Девис А., Пауэлл Дэвис А. Свитки Мертвого моря - одно из важнейших открытий XX века. Они способны полностью изменить традиционное понимание Библии, поскольку несут информацию о тридцати годах жизни Христа, о которых ранее ничего не было известно, и по-новому освещают период, непосредственно предшествовавший его...
Jhist.org, 2005. — 104 с. Иные написания имени автора: Пауэл Девис А., Пауэлл Дэвис А. Свитки Мертвого моря - одно из важнейших открытий XX века. Они способны полностью изменить традиционное понимание Библии, поскольку несут информацию о тридцати годах жизни Христа, о которых ранее ничего не было известно, и по-новому освещают период, непосредственно предшествовавший его...
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 1994. — 384 с. — (Orientalia). — ISBN 5-85803-029-7. В монографии на основе анализа Кумранских рукописей, описывающих исторические события, представлена оригинальная реконструкция истории Кумранской общины, проливающая, в частности, новый свет на зарождение и становление иудейских религиозно–политических сект ессеев, фарисеев и саддукеев....
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 1994. — 368 с. — (Orientalia). — ISBN: 5-85803-0219-7. В монографии на основе анализа Кумранских рукописей, описывающих исторические события, представлена оригинальная реконструкция истории Кумранской общины, проливающая, в частности, новый свет на зарождение и становление иудейских религиозно–политических сект ессеев, фарисеев и саддукеев....
СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 1994. — 384 с. — (Orientalia). — ISBN 5-85803-029-7. В монографии на основе анализа Кумранских рукописей, описывающих исторические события, представлена оригинальная реконструкция истории Кумранской общины, проливающая, в частности, новый свет на зарождение и становление иудейских религиозно–политических сект ессеев, фарисеев и саддукеев....
Перевод с древнееврейского и арамейского, введение и комментарий И.Д. Амусина. — М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1971. — 497 с. — (Памятники письменности Востока XXXIII, 1). Книга открывает впервые предпринимаемое издание комментированного перевода на русский язык наиболее значительных кумранских рукописей — важнейших письменных памятников, сообщающих сведения о социальных и идеологических...
Перевод с древнееврейского и арамейского, введение и комментарий И.Д. Амусина. — М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1971. — 497 с. — (Памятники письменности Востока XXXIII, 1). Книга открывает впервые предпринимаемое издание комментированного перевода на русский язык наиболее значительных кумранских рукописей — важнейших письменных памятников, сообщающих сведения о социальных и идеологических...
Введение, перевод с древнееврейского и арамейского и комментарии А. М. Газова-Гинзберга, М. М. Елизаровой и К. Б. Старковой. — СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 1996. — 440 с. — (Памятники культуры Востока VII). Во второй выпуск переводов основных сочинений из пещер Хирбет-Кумрана вошли главным образом тексты документов, регулировавших жизнь общины; некоторые из них содержат...
Введение, перевод с древнееврейского и арамейского и комментарии А. М. Газова-Гинзберга, М. М. Елизаровой и К. Б. Старковой. — СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 1996. — 440 с. — (Памятники культуры Востока VII). — ISBN 5-85803-021-1. Во второй выпуск переводов основных сочинений из пещер Хирбет-Кумрана вошли главным образом тексты документов, регулировавших жизнь общины;...
СПб.: Аксион эстин, 2004. - 257 с. - (Библеистика. Современные исследования). ISBN: 5-902679-01-X Работа рассматривает важнейшую тему библейского богословия - пророчества Ветхого Завета о Христе-Мессии, привлекая новейший материал рукописей Мертвого моря. Это позволяет, с одной стороны, понять, как воспринимались ветхозаветные пророчества накануне пришествия в мир Иисуса...
СПб.: Аксион эстин, 2004. - 257 с. - (Библеистика. Современные исследования). ISBN: 5-902679-01-X Работа рассматривает важнейшую тему библейского богословия - пророчества Ветхого Завета о Христе-Мессии, привлекая новейший материал рукописей Мертвого моря. Это позволяет, с одной стороны, понять, как воспринимались ветхозаветные пророчества накануне пришествия в мир Иисуса...
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