Departing from scholarship dedicated to the socio-historical realities of priesthood at Qumran, this book explores, in two parts, the most pervasive literary representations of priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a reflection of the religious worldview of the Qumran community …
"These volumes contain thirty essays, written over the last thirty-three years (with the very large majority over the last two decades), focusing on or touching upon a variety of the ways that Scripture (what became what we have come to call the Hebrew Bible or TeNaKh) was read,…
The importance of dualistic thinking within the 'Dead Sea Scrolls' has always been emphasised in 'Qumran Studies'. This volume assesses issues such as: the origin of Qumran's dualism; the literary growth of the passages in question; and the social/ideological setting of the dual…
