Authors:Popovic, M.,
Publisher: BRILL
Keywords: thedesert, judah, texts, studies, human, reading
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2007-07-11
List price: $151.00
ISBN-10: 9004157174
ISBN-13: 9789004157170
Offering new reconstructions and interpretations of physiognomic and astrological texts from Qumran in comparison with Babylonian and Greco-Roman texts, this book gives a fresh view of their sense, function, and status within both the Qumran community and Second Temple Judaism.
Authors:GarcÃa MartÃnez, F., Tigchelaar, E.J.C., Eibert J. C
Publisher: BRILL
Keywords: thedesert, judah, texts, studies, minora, qumranica
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2007-03
List price: $207.00
ISBN-10: 9004155694
ISBN-13: 9789004155695
The authors influential articles on the Origins of the Qumran Community (the co-called Groningen Hypothesis) and on Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls are now collected in one volume, including translations of essays that were written in Spanish and French.
Author: Shani L. Berrin
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: studies, texts, thedesert, judah, 4q169, study, nahum, scroll, qumran, exegetical, pesher
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 2004-06
List price: $196.00
ISBN-10: 9004124845
ISBN-13: 9789004124844
Authors:Hultgren, S.J.,
Publisher: BRILL
Keywords: covenant, thedesert, judah, texts, studies, community, damascus
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2007-06-30
List price: $288.00
ISBN-10: 9004154655
ISBN-13: 9789004154650
This volume offers new insight into the origins of the ""new covenant in the land of Damascus"" and the Qumran community, and explores topics related to their covenantal theology.
Author: Catherine M. Murphy
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: texts, studies, judah, thedesert, desert, community, dead, sea, scrolls, qumran, wealth
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $266.00
ISBN-10: 9004119345
ISBN-13: 9789004119345
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 Damascus Document, the Rule of the Community, and 4QInstruction A. Other sectarian and non-sectarian texts that mention wealth are discussed in a fifth chapter, while archaeological evidence from the Qumran region and contemporary documentary texts are introduced in chapters seven and eight. Finally, ancient secondary tes
Author: Crispin H. T. Fletcher-Louis
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: studies, texts, judah, thedesert, scrolls, desert, sea, adam, liturgical, anthropology, dead, glory
Number of Pages: 546
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $304.00
ISBN-10: 9004123261
ISBN-13: 9789004123267
This volume examines Dead Sea Scroll texts which pertain to the Qumran community’s understanding of: a transcendent, angelmorphic or divine humanity; and the role of cultic space and time, and the experience of worship, in the formation of such a humanity. The book contains 12 chapters. The first three are devoted to material which either antedates or provides important cognate material to the perculiarly sectarian material studied in the the remaining chapters (especially the Book of Noah and Sirach). Chapters four to six examine texts devoted to a divine humanity, the divine or angelec
Authors:Devorah Dimant, Devorah Dimant, Lawrence H. Schiffma
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: studies, hebrew, advanced, university, texts, judah, thedesert, institute, fellows, way, prepare, wilderness, papers, scrolls, qumran, time
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 1995-02
List price: $144.00
ISBN-10: 9004102256
ISBN-13: 9789004102255
This collection of articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls by fellows at the Institute for Advanced Studies of The Hebrew University (1989-1990) represents the ongoing work of editing and interpreting one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the century. This volume includes articles on the contents and significance of the scrolls, the biblical scrolls, the legal rulings of the sectarians and their prayer texts.
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