The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective

A History of Research
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-20806-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 686 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 1308 g

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

The volume consists of 27 surveys of research into the Dead Sea Scrolls in the past 60 years, written by 26 authors. An innovation of the volume is that it covers Qumran scholarship in separate countries: the USA, Canada, Israel, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Italy and the Eastern bloc. Each essay also carries a detailed bibliography for the respective country. Biographies of all the major scholars active in the field are briefly given as well. This book thereby exhaustively surveys past and present Qumran research, outlining its particular development in various circumstances and national contexts. For the first time, perspectives and information not recorded in any other publication are highlighted.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Qumran scrolls, both academic and general public. Especially suitable as introductory volume for general academic readership and thus of immediate interest to institutes, academic libraries, public libraries, specialists and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimant, Devorah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Über Autor(innen)

Devorah Dimant, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Professor (em.) for Ancient Jewish Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel, has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. She has produced first editions of several Qumran scrolls in Qumran Cave 4.XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXX; Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2001).