Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Current Issues in Dead Sea Scrolls Research
I: Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran and the Judaean Wilderness
1: Eric Meyers: Khirbet Qumran and its Environs
2: Rachel Hachlili: The Qumran Cemetery Reassessed
II: The Scrolls and Jewish History
3: Martin D. Goodman: Constructing Ancient Judaism from the Scrolls
4: Michael O. Wise: The Origins and History of the Teacher's Movement
5: Tal Ilan: Women in Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
III: The Scrolls and Sectarianism
6: John J. Collins: Sectarian Communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls
7: Joan E. Taylor: The Classical Sources on the Essenes and the Scrolls Communities
8: Jutta Jokiranta: Sociological Approaches to Qumran Sectarianism
9: Sacha Stern: Qumran Calendars and Sectarianism
10: James C. VanderKam: The Book of Enoch and the Qumran Scrolls
IV: The Biblical Texts, Interpretation and Languages of the
11: Ronald S. Hendel: Assessing the Text-Critical theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran
12: Timothy H. Lim: Authoritative Scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls
13: Molly Zahn: The Rewritten Scriptures
14: Bilha Nitzan: The Continuity of Biblical Interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
15: Jan Joosten: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls
Religious Themes in the Scrolls
16: Jonathan Klawans: Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
17: Michael Knibb: Apocalypticism and Messianism
18: James R. Davila: Exploring the Mystical Background fo the Dead Sea Scrolls
19: Armin Lange: Wisdom Literature and Thought in the Dead Sea Scrolls
20: Albert de Jong: Iranian Connections in the Dead Sea Scrolls
21: David Lambert: Was the Dead Sea Sect a Pentitential Movement?
VI: The Scrolls and Early Christianity
22: Jörg Frey: Critical Issues in the Investigation of the Scrolls and the New Testament
23: Larry Hurtado: Monotheism, Principal Angels, and the Background of Christology
24: George J. Brooke: Shared Exegetical Traditions between the Scrolls and the New Testament
The Scrolls and Later Judaism
25: Aharon Shemesh: Halakha between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
26: Daniel Falk: The Contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the STudy of ANcient Jewish Liturgy
27: Stefan Reif: Reviewing the Links between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah
VIII: New Approaches to the Scrolls
28: Carol Newsom: Rhetorical Criticism and the Reading of the Qumran Scrolls
29: Maxine Grossman: Roland Barthes and the Teacher of Righteousness
30: Hector L. MacQueen: The Scrolls and the Legal Definition of Authorship

Reviews

This volume brings together leading researchers to provide an up-to-date review of the major issues in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. ... This is a rich feast. ... It will nourish students for years to come and serve as an excellent means of taking stock of current research.
*William Loader, Expository Times*

In addition to pointing readers to what we know about the scrolls. the Handbook very successfully gets across the crucial message that some of the most groundbreaking achievements in current scroll scholarship have to do with challenging what we thought we knew.
*Charlotte Hempel, Bibilical Archaeology Review*

The importance of this work ... lies not merely in this wealth of expertise but rather in its unique objective. ... the decision of Collins and Lim to highlight contested questionsin diverse areas of Scrolls' scholarship give this particular volume a refreshing and welcome overarching unity. It will be consulted and appreciated by any scholar whose work engages the field of Second Temple Judaism.
*Shane Berg, Scottish Journal of Theology*