Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume IV. The Psalms Scroll of Qumran Cave XI
Author: J. A. Sanders
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1997-01-16
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780198263135
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Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume IV. The Psalms Scroll of Qumran Cave XI
Author: J. A. Sanders
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997-01-16
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780198263135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published 1965, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.
Qumran Cave 1
Author: D. Barthélemy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780198263012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1955, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
Author: Geza Vermes
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-06-24
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 0141901934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judaean desert between 1947 and 1956 transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism and the origins of Christianity. These extraordinary manuscripts appear to have been hidden in the caves at Quumran by members of the Essene community, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Jesus. Some sixty years after the Scrolls' first discovery, this revised and much expanded edition of The Dead Sea Scrolls in English crowns a lifetime of research by the great Qumran scholar Geza Vermes. As well as superb translations of all non-biblical texts sufficiently well preserved to be rendered into English, there are also a number of previously unpublished texts, and a new preface. Since its first publication in 1962, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English has established itself as the standard English translation of the non-Biblical Qumran Scrolls and as giving an astonishing insight to the organization, customs, history and beliefs of the community responsible for them. This edition will contain new material, together with extensive new introductory material and notes.
The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms
Author: William P. Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 0199783330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn indispensable resource for students and scholars, The Oxford Handbook of the Psalms features a diverse array of essays that treat the Psalms from a variety of perspectives. Classical scholarship and approaches as well as contextual interpretations and practices are well represented. The coverage is uniquely wide ranging.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: Dr. Peter W. Flint
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 142677107X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1947, a Bedouin shepherd literally stumbled upon a cave near the Dead Sea, a settlement now called Qumran, to the east of Jerusalem. This cave, along with the others located nearby, contained jars holding hundreds of scrolls and fragments of scrolls of texts both biblical and nonbiblical—in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The biblical scrolls would be the earliest evidence of the Hebrew Scriptures, or Old Testament, by hundreds of years; and the nonbiblical texts would shed dramatic light on one of the least-known periods of Jewish history—the Second Temple period. This find is, quite simply, the most important archaeological event in two thousand years of biblical studies. The scrolls provide information on nearly every aspect of biblical studies, including the Old Testament, text criticism, Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament, and Christian origins. It took more than fifty years for the scrolls to be completely and officially published, and there is no comparable brief, introductory resource. Core Biblical Studies fulfill the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to key subjects and themes in biblical studies. In the shifting tides of biblical interpretation, these books are designed to help students locate relevant meanings in conversation with the text. As a first step toward substantive and subsequent learning, the series draws on the best scholarship in order to provide foundational concepts and contextualized information on a broad scope of issues, methods, perspectives, and trends.
The Qumrān Community: Its History and Scrolls
Author: Charles Theodore Fritsch
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780819602794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Book of Psalms
Author: Peter W. Flint
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9004350195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the Dead Sea Scrolls, Psalms are found in no less than thirty-nine manuscripts. This groundbreaking volume presents the first comprehensive study of these scrolls, by making available a wealth of primary data and investigating the main issues that arise. The first part provides information which many scholars will find enormously helpful, such as descriptions of the manuscripts, listings of variant readings, a synopsis of superscriptions, and indices of contents of all the Psalms scrolls. The second part investigates the issues, some of which are relevant to the Book of Psalms itself (e.g. stabilization in two distinct stages), while others focus upon 11QPsa, the largest Psalms scroll (e.g. part of an edition of the Book of Psalms), and one involves the relation of these manuscripts to the Septuagint Psalter.
Qumran Cave 4
Author: John Marco Allegro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996-12
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780198263142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1968, this volume is being reissued to make the entire series available to students and scholars of biblical and post-biblical Judaism and early Christianity.
The Land to the Elect and Justice for All
Author: Mika S. Pajunen
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2013-12-11
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 3647550604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMika S. Pajunen contributes both to the understanding of manuscript 4Q381 from the Dead Sea Scrolls and to broader issues related to the reconstruction of damaged scrolls and to the reading of psalms in late Second Temple Judaism. The author focuses especially on the collection of "apocryphal" psalms in 4Q381 and other similar psalm collections, but it is also of interest to the ongoing search for the functions of psalmody in this period.A material reconstruction of manuscript 4Q381 has been made to determine the original placement of all the substantial fragments within the scroll. The reconstruction shows there to be eight psalms in the preserved scroll. A thorough analysis of all of them is incorporated in this study, including a critical Hebrew text and the first English translation of the psalms, a basic outline of the psalms' content with comments on their details, and a presentation of their overall message.All the psalms in 4Q381 discuss specific periods of time. The first three psalms cover a period from the Creation to the expected future of a group identified as God's chosen ones. These are followed by five pseudepigraphic psalms that are named in this study as Praise of the Man of God (David), Praise of Hezekiah, Penitential Prayer of Manasseh, Lament of Josiah, and Penitential Prayer of Jehoiachin. The psalms in 4Q381 make up a consistent whole that is shown to function as a unified lesson on the justice of God toward his elect.In this investigation 4Q381 is placed into its proper place inside some of the larger developments and ideologies perceivable within late Second Temple Judaism. For instance, 4Q381 is part of the general trends discernible in psalmody of this period, namely, a general increase in reflection upon the past and the use of wisdom motifs. But in addition, 4Q381 also gives evidence of a perception of psalms as sources of history that is in the end found to be a much broader phenomenon.
