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A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT VOLUME I EDITED BY PETER W. FLINT AND JAMES C. VANDERKAM Y R A e R r Ba Iu L q C IS L B y U e P l Np Oo TC S O B ✓ + d •• ££' ' : • - JL • »• . f- #--*v . * ■ -I.i \ ’•<- 4 -f » Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/deadseascrollsafOOpete THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AFTER FIFTY YEARS VOLUME I ■ THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AFTER FIFTY YEARS A Comprehensive Assessment EDITED BY PETER W. FLINT AND JAMES C. VANDERKAM With the Assistance of Andrea E. Alvarez VOLUME ONE /68^ BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON • KOLN 1998 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Dead Sea scrolls after fifty years / edited by Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam. p. cm. — Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9004110607 (alk. paper). — ISBN 9004108580 (set) 1. Dead Sea scrolls—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Flint, Peter W. II. Vanderkam, James C. III. Series. BM487.D4495 1998 296.1’55—dc21 98-14417 CIP Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme The Dead Sea scrolls after fifty years / ed. by Peter W. Flint and James C. Vanderkam.- Leiden; Boston; Koln : Brill ISBN 90-04-10858-0 Vol. 1 (1998) ISBN 90-04-11060-7 Vol. 2 (1998) ISBN 90-04-11061-5 ISBN 90 04 11060 7 (Vol. I) ISBN 90 04 10858 0 fsetj © Copyright 1998 by Komnkhjke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Bnll provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS 6M487 .D4495 1998 CONTENTS Volume One Contents .v Preface..vii Terms, Sigla and Abbreviations.ix List of Contributors.xv Introduction to Volume One.xvii List of Plates ^.xxi PART ONE REVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP ADAM S. VAN DER WOUDE Fifty years of Qumran Research. 1 PART TWO QUMRAN ARCHAEOLOGY JODI MAGNESS Qumran Archaeology: Past Perspectives and Future Prospects.47 PART THREE QUMRAN TEXTS EUGENE ULRICH The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Text.79 LEONARD J. GREENSPOON The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Greek Bible. 101 MOSHE J. BERNSTEIN Pentateuchal Interpretation at Qumran.128 HANNAH K. HARRINGTON Biblical Law at Qumran.160 SARIANNA METSO Constitutional Rules at Qumran.186 JOHN I. KAMPEN The Diverse Aspects of Wisdom in the Qumran Texts .211 ESTHER G. CHAZON Hymns and Prayers in the Dead Sea Scrolls.244 VI CONTENTS GEORGE J. BROOKE Parabiblical Prophetic Narratives.271 AL WOLTERS The Copper Scroll..302 PART FOUR TECHNICAL STUDIES MARTIN G. ABEGG, JR. The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls.325 EDWARD M. COOK The Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls.359 FRANK MOORE CROSS Palaeography and the Dead Sea Scrolls.379 EMANUEL TOY Scribal Practices Reflected in the Texts from the Judaean Desert.... 403 GREG DOUDNA Dating the Scrolls on the Basis of Radiocarbon Analysis .430 GREGORY BEARMAN, STEPHEN J. PFANN, AND SHEILA I. SPIRO Imaging the Scrolls: Photographic and Direct Digital Acquisition .. 472 DONALD W. PARRY, DAVID V. ARNOLD, DAVID G. LONG, SCOTT R. WOODWARD New Technological Advances: DNA, Databases, Imaging Radar.... 496 ANNETTE STEUDEL Assembling and Reconstructing Manuscripts.516 ESTHER BOYD-ALKALAY AND ELENA LIBMAN Preserving the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Artefacts.535
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