Historical Perspectives : From the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls : Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 27-31 January, 1999

Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature International Symposium (4th : 1999) (Author). Goodblatt, David M. (Added Author). Pinnick, Avital. (Added Author). Schwartz, Daniel R. (Added Author).

Summary: The papers in this volume cover topics such as: the historical references in the Dead Sea Scrolls, comparative studies between the Scrolls and Josephus, issues of Jewish nationalism, Jewish law, and reports on DNA preserved in leather used for the scrolls.

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ISBN: 9789004120075
ISBN: 9004120076
ISBN: 9781417590902
ISBN: 1417590904
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 201 pages).
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Publisher: Boston : Brill, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Judean nationalism in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls / David Goodblatt -- The Kittim in the War scroll and in the Pesharim / Hanan Eshel -- Antiochus IV Epiphanes in Jerusalem / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Shelamzion in Qumran : new insights / Tal Ilan -- Descriptions of the Jerusalem Temple in Josephus and the Temple scroll / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The concept of the covenant in Qumran literature / Bilhah Nitzan -- "[T]he[y] did not read in the sealed book" : Qumran halakhic revolution and the emergence of Torah study in Second Temple Judaism / Adiel Schremer -- Communal fasts in the Judean desert scrolls / Noah Hacham -- The community of goods among the first Christians and among the Essenes / Justin Taylor -- The genetic signature of the Dead Sea scrolls / Gila Kahila Bar-Gal [and others] -- Analysis of microsopic material and the stitching of the Dead Sea scrolls : a preliminary study / Azriel Gorski -- How neutron activation analysis can assist research into the provenance of the pottery at Qumran / Jan Gunneweg, Marta Balla.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.