The three-volume edition Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls will become a milestone for Old and New Testament research. The authors are leading scholars in this field and no other publication has collected so many interesting contributions about the largest finding of biblical and Jewish texts in the last century. --Martin Hengel, University of Tubingen
These three volumes containing fresh and updated research on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible, the Qumran community, and early Christianity, written by renown scholars from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel, and edited by one of the world's leading scholars, promise to be a major and definitive contribution to scholarship. --Adolfo Roitman, Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
James H. Charlesworth has assembled a stellar gathering of Dead Sea Scrolls scholars in these rich volumes. They will make a lasting and profoundly significant contribution to the understanding of the greatest archeological find of modern times and the light it throws on the Bible. --Michael E. Stone, Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Comparative Religion, Professor of Armenian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Introduction: The Dead Sea Scrolls:
- Their Discovery and Challenge to Biblical Studies, James H. Charlesworth
- Chapter 1: The Impact of the Judean Desert Scrolls on Issues of Text and Canon of the Hebrew Bible, James A. Sanders
- Chapter 2: Qumran and the Enoch Groups:
- Revisiting the Enochic-Essene Hypothesis, Gabriele Boccaccini
- Chapter 3: The Biblical Scrolls from Qumran and the Canonical Text, Frank Moore Cross
- Chapter 4: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Scriptural Texts, Eugene C. Ulrich
- Chapter 5: The Formation and Re-Formation of Daniel in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Loren T. Stuckenbruck
- Chapter 6: The Rewritten Bible at Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford
- Chapter 7: Qumran and a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible, Ronald S. Hendel
- Chapter 8: 4QSama (= 4Q51), the Canon, and the Community of Lay Readers, Donald W. Parry
- Chapter 9: Three Sobriquets, Their Meaning and Function: The Wicked Priest, Synagogue of Satan, and the Woman Jezebel, H?Ñkan Bengtsson
- Chapter 10: The Biblical and Qumranic Concept of War, Philip R. Davies
- Chapter 11: Psalms and Psalters in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Peter W. Flint
- Chapter 12: The Importance of Isaiah at Qumran, J. J. M. Roberts
- Chapter 13: Biblical Interpretation at Qumran, George J. Brooke