The Dead Sea scrolls in their historical context /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	University of Edinburgh. Centre for Christian Origins
Other Authors:	Lim, Timothy H., Hurtado, Larry W., 1943-2019, Auld, A. Graeme, Jack, Alison M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2004.
Subjects:	Dead Sea scrolls > Congresses. Qumran community > Congresses. Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses. Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. > Congresses. Dode-Zeerollen.

Table of Contents:

The Dead Sea sect and other Jews : commonalities, overlaps and differences / E.P. Sanders
The wicked priest or the liar? / Timothy H. Lim
What did you go out to see? : John the Baptist, the Scrolls and late Second Temple Judaism / J. Ian H. McDonald
The Qumran Biblical scrolls : the scriptures of late Second Temple Judaism / Eugene C. Ulrich
Qumran evidence for a biblical standard text and for non-standard and parabiblical texts / Julio Trebolle-Barrera
E pluribus unum : textual variety and definitive interpretation in the Qumran scrolls / George J. Brooke
Halakhah and sectarianism in the Dead Sea scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman
The story of Joseph and the Book of Jubilees / Calum M. Carmichael
Sabbatical chronologies in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature / James C. VanderKam
Qumran calendars : theory and practice / Sacha Stern
The place of the Book of Jubilees at Qumran and beyond / Charlotte Hempel
The nature of messianism in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins
Judaisms in the Dead Sea scrolls : the case of the Messiah / Philip R. Davies
The branch in the last days : observations on the new covenant before and after the Messiah / Håkan Ulfgard
The Dead Sea scrolls and merkavah mysticism / James R. Davila.