Through a detailed examination of key Dead Sea Scroll texts this is a fresh study of the role of temple worship and cosmology in the formation of the ancient Jewish belief in true humanity's transcendence of mortality, likeness to the ...
In The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey, Jesper Høgenhavn presents a reading of the Copper Scroll as a literary text.
This book offers a fresh, broader model for reading "S" that better accounts for the long and diverse history behind the text.
The essays fall into the following categories: the collection as a whole, subcollections within the overall corpus, and the implications of identifying the Qumran collection as a library.
As the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran, this book offers a detailed examination of the purity material from Qumran through a ...
This book focuses on the third section of one of the most important documents from the Qumran library, the epilogue of 4QMMT.
As the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran, this book offers a detailed examination of the purity material from Qumran through a ...
Covering a wide array of sources from ancient Mesopotamia to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the present volume offers an innovative perspective on Jewish apocalyptic time-reckoning during the Second Temple period, based on a unique calendar year of ...
This volume analyzes the wide variety of the Qumran community s liturgical practices in light of their social and ideological structures, discussing their implications for community identity formation, boundary formation, and instruction of ...