Includes index.

"This volume originated at a co-organized conference in November of 2009 in Toronto, Ontario. This was in conjunction with the exhibit 'Words that Changed the World' held at the Royal Ontario Museum and co-sponsored by the Israel Antiquities Authority"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Tradition and innovation in the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins -- Moses trumping Moses : making the book of Jubilees / James C. VanderKam -- Some translation and copying mistakes from the original Hebrew of the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs / James L. Kugel -- Why Nabonidus? Excavating traditions from Qumran, the Hebrew Bible, and neo-Babylonian sources / Carol A. Newsom -- The emergence of Aramaic and Hebrew scholarly texts : transmission and translation of alien wisdom / Mladen Popović -- Shared traditions : points of contact between S and D / Charlotte Hempel -- Aspects of the physical and scribal features of some Cave 4 "continuous" pesharim / George J. Brooke -- Some thoughts about the diffusion of biblical manuscripts in antiquity / Emanuel Tov -- Assessing Emanuel Tov's "Qumran scribal practice" / Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar -- The evolutionary production and transmission of the scriptural books / Eugene Ulrich -- Beyond the sectarian divide : the "voice of the teacher" as an authority-conferring strategy in some Qumran texts / Florentino García Martínez.

Description based on print version record.