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Serekh Texts
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 100.00The Serekh Texts discusses the central rule documents produced by a pious Jewish community of the Essenes that lived at Qumran by the Dead Sea at the turn of the era. The texts describe the life of a highly ascetic group that had rejected the hellenistic Jewish culture and had withdrawn into the desert to live a life of perfect obedience to the Torah.... more...
Self-Understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 140.00This book will enable the scholarly public to have a better comprehension of the ideology of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community and how these two metaphors shaped the role of the community. It will help it readers to know how important it was for the DSS community to see itself as the ‘True Israel’ and as the ‘Kingdom of priests and a... more...
Temple Scroll and Related Texts
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 65.00The Temple Scroll and Related Texts, one of the series Companion to the Qumran Scrolls, is a comprehensive roadmap to the Temple Scroll, the longest and one of the most complex of the manuscripts from Qumran. The central chapter contains a discussion of the contents of the Temple Scroll, including sections on the Temple and its courts, purity regulation,... more...
Copper Scroll Studies
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 150.00This book contains the papers delivered at the 1996 Copper Scroll Symposium which was organized by the Manchester-Sheffield Centre for Dead Sea Scrolls Research to mark the 40th Anniversary of the opening of this enigmatic scroll in Manchester. The papers cover the history of the Scroll's interpretation (P. Muchowski, P. Davies, B. Segal, M. Wise);... more...
Sapiential, liturgical, and poetical texts from Qumran
BRILL 2000; US$ 211.00This collection of Qumran papers will provide study material for researchers and students in ancient Judaism and Christian origins and Biblical studies. more...
The Dead Sea scrolls study edition
BRILL 2000; US$ 146.00This study text contains edited Hebrew and Aramaic transcriptions, and English translations of the non-biblical scrolls on facing pages, arranged by serial number from Cave 1 to Cave 11. In addition it offers a summary of the contents of the biblical scrolls from Qumran. more...
Historical perspectives
BRILL 2001; US$ 144.00The papers in this volume cover topics such as: the historical references in the Dead Sea Scrolls, comparative studies between the Scrolls and Josephus, issues of Jewish nationalism, Jewish law, and reports on DNA preserved in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. more...
Wealth in the Dead Sea scrolls and in the Qumran community
BRILL 2002; US$ 266.00This volume is concerned with exploring sectarian attitudes toward wealth and the economic practices that gave rise to and issued from those attitudes. It argues for several biblical rationales for the practice of shared wealth. more...
The Aramaic Levi Document
BRILL 2004; US$ 136.00The fragments of Aramaic Levi Document are presented for the first time as a single coherent whole. This book, which will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level, includes original texts, translation, introduction and extensive and detailed commentary. more...
An Aramaic Wisdom Text from Qumran
BRILL 2004; US$ 204.00This source publication of the Aramaic Levi Document collects all the manuscripts and photographs of this Levitical composition from the Second Temple period. The commentary on the Document deals with its literary characteristics, educational character, and Babylonian origin of Levitical professional education. more...









