Qumran Between the Old and New Testaments (Journal for the Study of the Old Testatment Supplement Series 290 Copenhagen International Seminar 6)

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 12
List of Contributors......Page 16
The Genre of 11QMelchizedek / Anders Aschim......Page 18
The Essenes in Philo and Josephus / Per Bilde......Page 33
The Consciousness of Belonging to God's Covenant and What it Entails According to the Damascus Document and the Community Rule / Ellen Juhl Christiansen......Page 70
Genesis in Qumran / Frederick H. Cryer......Page 99
The Mystery to Come: Early Essene Theology of Revelation / Torleif Elgvin......Page 114
The Isaiah Scroll and the Composition of the Book of Isaiah / Jesper Høgenhaven......Page 152
The Spirit in Human Beings in Some Qumran Non-Biblical Texts / Robert W. Kvalvang......Page 160
The Understanding of Community in the Old Testament and in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Niels Peter Lemche......Page 182
The History of the Qumran Community in the Light of Recently Available Texts / Florentino García Martínez......Page 195
The Use of Old Testament Quotations in the Qumran Community Rule / Sarianna Metso......Page 218
Qumran and LXX / Staffan Olofsson......Page 233
The Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran / Allan rosengren Petersen......Page 250
4QTestimonia and Bible Composition: A Copenhagen Lego Hypothesis......Page 262
The Significance of the Texts from the Judean Desert for the history of the Text of the Hebrew Bible: A New Synthesis / Emanuel Tov......Page 278
The Teacher of Righteousness, the History of the Qumran Community, and our Understanding of the Jesus Movement: Texts, Theories and Trajectories / Håkan Ulfgard......Page 311
Historiography of Qumran: The Sons of Zadok and their Enemies / Ben Zion Wacholder......Page 348
Index of References......Page 379
Index of Authors......Page 395