The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Volume 2, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran Community

CONTENTS

CONTENTS Chapter 1 Digital Miracles: Revealing Invisible Scripts ......................1 Keith T. Knox, Roger L. Easton, Jr., Robert H. Johnston Chapter 2 Another Stab at the Wicked Priest ....................................17 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” ..........................................................25 Shemaryahu Talmon Chapter 4 The Covenant in Qumran ................................................59 Moshe Weinfeld Chapter 5 What was Distinctive about Messianic Expectation at Qumran? ..................................71 John J. Collins Chapter 6 The Law and Spirit of Purity at Qumran ........................93 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 ..............107 Brent A. Strawn Chapter 8 The Two Spirits in Qumran Theology ..........................169 John R. Levison Chapter 9 Dualism in the Essene Communities ..............................195 Elisha Qimron Chapter 10 The Qumran Concept of Time ......................................203 Henry W. Morisada Rietz Chapter 11 Predestination in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls ....235 Magen Broshi Chapter 12 Resurrection: The Bible and Qumran ............................247 Émile Puech v vi CONTENTS Chapter 13 Qumran Community Structure and Terminology as Theological Statement ..........................283 Sarianna Metso Chapter 14 Daily and Festival Prayers at Qumran............................301 Dennis T. Olson Chapter 15 The Sociological and Liturgical Dimensions of Psalm Pesher 1 (4QpPsa): Some Prolegomenous Reflections ..............................................317 James H. Charlesworth and James D. McSpadden Chapter 16 The Moses at Qumran: The qdch hrwm as the Nursing-Father of the dxy ........................................351 Jacob Cherian Chapter 17 Enoch and the Archangel Michael..................................363 Ephraim Isaac Chapter 18 Qumran and the Dating of the Parables of Enoch ........377 Paolo Sacchi Chapter 19 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Meal Formula in Joseph and Aseneth: From Qumran Fever to Qumran Light ..................................................................397 Randall D. Chesnutt Chapter 20 The Bible, the Psalms of Solomon, and Qumran ................427 Joseph L. Trafton Chapter 21 Old Testament Pseudepigrapha at Qumran ..................447 Devorah Dimant Chapter 22 The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha at Qumran..........469 James C. VanderKam ...