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
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
- Chapter 1 Digital Miracles: Revealing Invisible Scripts
- Keith T. Knox, Roger L. Easton, Jr., Robert H. Johnston
- Chapter 2 Another Stab at the Wicked Priest
- David Noel Freedman and Jeffrey C. Geoghegan
- Chapter 3 What's in a Calendar? Calendar Conformity and Calendar Controversy in Ancient Judaism: The Case of the ""Community of the Renewed Covenant""
- Shemaryahu Talmon
- Chapter 4 The Covenant in Qumran
- Moshe Weinfeld
- Chapter 5 What was Distinctive about Messianic Expectation at Qumran?
- John J. Collins
- Chapter 6 The Law and Spirit of Purity at Qumran
- Joseph M. Baumgarten
- Chapter 7 Excerpted Manuscripts at Qumran: Their Significance for the Textual History of the Hebrew Bible and the Socio-Religious History of the Qumran Community and its Literature
- Brent A. Strawn
- Chapter 8 The Two Spirits in Qumran Theology
- John R. Levison
- Chapter 9 Dualism in the Essene Communities
- Elisha Qimron
- Chapter 10 The Qumran Concept of Time
- Henry W. Morisada Rietz
- Chapter 11 Predestination in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Magen Broshi
- Chapter 12 Resurrection: The Bible and Qumran
- ?ëmile Puech
- Chapter 13 Qumran Community Structure and Terminology as Theological Statement
- Sarianna Metso
- Chapter 14 Daily and Festival Prayers at Qumran
- Dennis T. Olson
- Chapter 15 The Sociological and Liturgical Dimensions of Psalm Pesher 1 (4QpPsa): Some Prolegomenous Reflections
- James H. Charlesworth and James D. McSpadden
- Chapter 16 The Moses at Qumran: The qdch hrwm as the Nursing-Father of the dxy
- Jacob Cherian
- Chapter 17 Enoch and the Archangel Michael
- Ephraim Isaac
- Chapter 18 Qumran and the Dating of the Parables of Enoch
- Paolo Sacchi
- Chapter 19 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Meal Formula in Joseph and Aseneth: From Qumran Fever to Qumran Light
- Randall D. Chesnutt
- Chapter 20 The Bible, the Psalms of Solomon, and Qumran
- Joseph L. Trafton
- Chapter 21 Old Testament Pseudepigrapha at Qumran
- Devorah Dimant
- Chapter 22 The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha at Qumran
- James C. VanderKam