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Exegetical texts
BRILL 2004; US$ 43.00This work presents all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. more...
The Dead Sea scrolls reader. Part 1, Texts concerned with religious law
BRILL 2004; US$ 48.00This work presents all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. more...
The Dead Sea scrolls reader. Part 4, Calendrical and sapiential texts
BRILL 2004; US$ 46.00This work presents all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. more...
Reading the Human Body
BRILL 2007; US$ 151.00Offering fresh 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 the Qumran community and Second Temple Judaism. more...
Use of Sobriquets in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00This book constitutes an examination of key sobriquets found among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. Its primary focus is literary rather than historical and concentrates on the function of the sobriquets as labels utilised positively or negatively within the sectarian compositions. Noting the presence of ‘standard’ and ‘variant’... more...
Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00The updated inventory list reflects corrections made to details recorded imprecisely in DJD XXXIX, the data published in the last DJD volumes, inscribed archeological evidence, new fragments, changed names, new identifications, etc. Also included is an updated version of the categorized list of biblical texts. more...
Flores Florentino
BRILL 2007; US$ 265.00This volume comprises forty-eight essays, presented by friends, colleagues and students in honour of Florentino García Martínez. The articles are primarily in the field of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but also cover many other fields of Second Temple Judaism, from late biblical texts and Septuagint up to the pseudepigrapha and early rabbinic writings. more...
Exegetical Texts
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 120.00Jonathan G. Campbell provides an introduction to eight sectarian manuscripts from among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls that can loosely be called the 'Exegetical Texts'. He examines their contents, background, genre, and significance and he provides a history of the relevant research. The Exegetical Texts constitute a particularly diverse strand... more...
War Texts
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 120.00The War Texts is the name given to a small group of Dead Sea Scrolls that depict the preparation for and the various phases of the eschatological battle between the 'Sons of Light' and the 'Sons of Darkness'. Jean Duhaime briefly surveys the history of these texts from their initial discovery to their official publication. He describes... more...
Parabiblical Texts
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 110.00This book introduces the reader to a fascinating genre of writings that retell biblical narratives in various ways. They reflect the concerns and methods of early Jewish interpreters of Scripture. Daniel Falk surveys the content and major scholarly issues of three key examples: Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen), Reworked Pentateuch (4Q158, 364-5), and Commentary... more...









