Joseph M. Baumgarten (1928–2008), Ph.D. 1954, Johns Hopkins University, a rabbi and scholar in Baltimore, edited numerous Dead Sea Scrolls and was one of the world’s foremost specialists in the study of Qumran law. The present volume complements his Studies in Qumran Law (Brill, 1977).
Ruth A. Clements, Th.D. (1997), Harvard Divinity School, is head of publications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. She coedited The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill, 2018).
Daniel R. Schwartz, Ph.D. (1980), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the Herbst Family Professor of Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published on Josephus and the Books of Maccabees and is the author of Judeans and Jews: Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History (Univ. of Toronto, 2014).