Among the most prominent hallmarks of the late Prof. Hanan Eshel (1958–2010) were his generosity, passion, and integrative approach. The eighteen essays in this volume were selected by Prof. Eshel shortly before his untimely death, to be printed as a collection aimed at contextualizing the textual finds of the Dead Sea Scrolls within their archaeological settings and within the contours of contemporary scholarship.The Qumran texts that stand at the center of these articles are correlated with archaeological and geographic information and with a variety of textual sources including epigraphic evidence and, especially, the Hebrew Bible, Josephus, and rabbinic texts. The essays are organized according to the provenance of the discovered material, with sections devoted to the Damascus Documentand the scrolls from Caves 1, 3, 4, and 11, as well as a final more general chapter.Half of the essays have been previously published in English, while the other half have been translated from Hebrew here for the first time. The book includes essays that have been co-authored with Esther Eshel, Shlomit Kendi-Harel, Zeev Safrai, and John Strugnell.
Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
Paul Heger
bookGender and Social Norms in Ancient Israel, Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Texts and Material Culture
bookBetween Text and Text : The Hermeneutics of Intertextuality in Ancient Cultures and Their Afterlife in Medieval and Modern Times
bookExploring the Dead Sea Scrolls : Archaeology and Literature of the Qumran Caves
Hanan Eshel
bookPerformances of Ancient Jewish Letters : From Elephantine to MMT
Marvin Lloyd Miller
bookThe Courtier and the Governor : Transformations of Genre in the Nehemiah Memoir
Sean Burt
bookLight Against Darkness : Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and the Contemporary World
bookCommentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran
Bronson Brown-deVost
book"See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me" (Ps 40:8) : Epigraphy and Daily Life from the Bible to the Talmud
bookProphecy and Its Cultic Dimensions
bookReligious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World
bookBetween Symbolism and Realism : The Use of Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Language in Ancient Jewish Apocalypses 333-63 B.C.E
Bennie H. Reynolds Reynolds
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