The Dead Sea scrolls :  texts and context / 
edited by Charlotte Hempel. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2010. 
 - 1 online resource (xvi, 552 pages) :  maps 
 - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah,  v. 90  0169-9962 ; .
 - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ;  v. 90. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-526) and index. 
<br/><br/> Preface /  Introduction /  The scrolls and the literary landscape of Second Temple Judaism /  What history can we get from the scrolls, and how? /  Gleaning of scrolls from the Judean desert /  Scrolls and hand impurity /  The glass from Khirbet Qumran : what does it tell us about the Qumran community? /  Cave 11 in context /  Further reflections on caves 1 and 11 : a response to Florentino García Martínez /  Temple mysticism and the temple men /  Priests at Qumran : a reassessment /  The Qumran sectarians and the temple in Jerusalem /  The context of 4QMMT and comfortable theories /  The centrality of the temple in 4QMMT /  Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran Pesharim /  Demonstrable instances of the use of sources in the Pseudepigrapha /  Marriage and divorce : from social institution to Halakhic norms /  4Q318 : a Jewish Zodiac calendar at Qumran? /  Qumran and the rabbis on corpse-impurity : common exegesis : tacit problem /  Between two sects : differentiating the Yaḥad and the Damascus covenant /  From Cairo Genizah to Qumran : the influence of the Zadokite fragments on the study of the Qumran scrolls /  Dio Chrysostom on the Essene landscape /  Albert Baumgarten --  Charlotte Hempel --  Michael E. Stone --  Philip R. Davies --  Hanan Eshel --  Jodi Magness --  Dennis Mizzi --  Florentino García Martínez --  Daniel Stökl Ben-Ezra --  Torleif Elgvin --  Heinz-Josef Fabry --  Martin Goodman --  Charlotte Hempel --  Hanne von Weissenberg --  George J. Brooke --  Vered Hillel --  Bernard S. Jackson --  Helen R. Jacobus --  Vered Noam --  Eyal Regev --  Lawrence H. Schiffman --  Joan E. Taylor. 
<br/><br/> This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference of the same title held at the University of Birmingham in 2007. The contributors are drawn from the ranks of leading intenational specialists in the field writing alongside promising younger scholars. The volume includes studies on the contribution of the Scrolls to Second Temple Jewish history, the archaeological context, the role of the temple and its priesthood, as well as treatments on selected texts and issues. These proceedings offer a timely and up to date assessment of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the material remains unearthed at Qumran in their wider context and not infrequently challenge prevailing lines of interpretation. --Book Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004167841 9004167846 9789004190764 9004190767 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Dead Sea scrolls--Congresses<br/>Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q --Congresses<br/>Dead Sea scrolls.<br/>Qumrantexte
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>586 B.C.-210 A.D 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.--Congresses<br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--West Bank--Qumran Site--Congresses<br/>Priests, Jewish--Congresses<br/>RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.<br/>Antiquities.<br/>Excavations (Archaeology)<br/>Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism)<br/>Priests, Jewish.<br/>Frühjudentum<br/>Archäologie
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Qumran Site (West Bank)--Antiquities--Congresses<br/>West Bank--Qumran Site.<br/>Qumran<br/>Birmingham <2007>
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books<br/>Conference papers and proceedings.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM487  / .D447 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.1/55