The Hebrew Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Emanuel Tov is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Kristin De Troyer ist Professorin für Altes Testament/Hebräische Bibel am St Mary's College, St Andrews.

Dr. theol. Armin Lange ist Professor für das Judentum des zweiten Tempels und Vorstand des Instituts für Judaistik der Universität Wien. In seinen Lehrveranstaltungen bestreitet er die Zeit von den Anfängen Israels und Judas bis zum zweiten jüdischen Krieg. In seiner Forschung spezialisiert er sich auf die weisheitliche und prophetische Literatur Israels, die Textfunde vom Toten Meer sowie die Text- und Kanongeschichte der Hebräischen Bibel. Er ist Mitglied des internationalen Herausgeberteams der Textfunde vom Toten Meer.

Dr. theol. Michaela Bauks ist Professorin für Bibelwissenschaft (Altes Testament) an der Universität Koblenz-Landau.

Dr. Bennie H. Reynolds III., Ph.D., lehrt alte Mittelmeer-Religionen an der Universität von North Carolina, Chapel Hill, und am Millsaps College.

Vered Noam, Ph.D., ist Professor für Jewish Philosophy and Talmud und Chair der Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology an der Universität Tel-Aviv.

Hanna Tervanotko, Ph.D, Th.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Helsinki with a second affiliation at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Dr. Karin Finsterbusch ist Professorin für das Alte Testament und seine Didaktik an der Universität Koblenz-Landau (Landau).

Dr. theol. Thomas Römer is Professeur for Hebrew Bible at the Department of Theology and for Religious Studies at the University of Lausanne.

Dr Mika S. Pajunen is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Biblical Studies, University of Helsinki.

Until recently, most non-biblical manuscripts attested in the Qumran library were regarded as copies of texts that were composed after the books of the Hebrew Bible were written. Students of the Hebrew Bible found the Dead Sea Scrolls therefore mostly of interest for the textual and interpretative histories of these books. The present collection confirms the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for both areas, by showing that they have revolutionized our understanding of how the text of the biblical books developed and how they were interpreted. Beyond the textual and interpretative histories, though, many texts attested in the Qumran library illuminate the time in which the later books of the Hebrew Bible were composed and reworked as well as Jewish life and law in the time when the canon of the Hebrew Bible developed. This volume gives important examples as to how the early texts attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls help to better understand individual biblical books and as to how the later texts among them illustrate Jewish life and law when the canon of the Hebrew Bible evolved. In order to find an adequate expertise for the seminar »The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible«, the editors invited both junior and senior specialists in the fields of Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinics to Rome.

Until recently, most non-biblical manuscripts attested in the Qumran library were regarded as copies of texts that were composed after the books of the Hebrew Bible were written. Students of the Hebrew Bible found the Dead Sea Scrolls therefore mostly of interest for the textual and interpretative histories of these books. The present collection confirms the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for both areas, by showing that they have revolutionized our understanding of how the text of the biblical books developed, how they were interpreted and how they illustrate ancient Jewish life and law.

To better understand individual biblical books as well as ancient Jewish life and law.

This volume gives examples how the early texts attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls help to understand individual biblical books and how the later texts among them illustrate Jewish life and law when the canon of the Hebrew Bible evolved.