Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. Contr…
The book of the Old Testament are religious writings. In the first place they consist of confessions of faith, in which pride of place is taken by the acts of God and not the words and deeds of human beings.
The volume also clarifies that not all Qumran commentaries are pesharim, and that there is a variety within them.
The biblical manuscripts found at Qumran, contends Sidnie White Crawford, reflect a spectrum of text movement from authoritative scriptural traditions to completely new compositions.
In a book meant to introduce general readers to this fascinating area of study, veteran archaeologist Jodi Magness here provides an overview of the archaeology of Qumran and presents an exciting new interpretation of this ancient community based on information found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary documents. Magness's work offers a number of fresh conclusions concerning life at Q…
The title of this book, then, is not Second Thoughts on the Dawn of Christianity but Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This volume attempts to do something a bit different from these more comprehensive scholarly resources. First, the essays collected here are purposely introductory.
The scrolls have been the subject of unending fascination and controversy ever since their discovery in the Qumran caves beginning in 1947. Intensifying the debate, Professor Norman Golb now fundamentally challenges those who argue that the writings belonged to a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect.
Among the invaluable manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are numerous fragments of liturgical texts pertaining to the ritual life of Jews living around the turn of the common era. These fascinating writings include prayers for annual festivals, a covenant renewal liturgy, a mystical liturgy for Sabbath sacrifices, a grace ceremony for mourners, daily and weekly prayers, liturgies of purificatio…
This is an accessible commentary on the Jewish wisdom literature of Qumran by a renowned Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. The book features translations, critical notes, and a line-by-line commentary.