The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: "Clear a Path in the Wilderness!"

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, Cosponsored by the University of Vienna, New York University, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the Israel Museum
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69806-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 147, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 776 g

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

The Sixteenth Orion Symposium celebrated seventy years of Dead Sea Scrolls research under the theme, “Clear a path in the wilderness!” (Isaiah 40:3). Papers use the wilderness rubric to address the self-identification of the Qumran group; dimensions of religious experience reflected in the Dead Sea writings; biblical interpretation as shaper and conveyor of that experience; the significance of the Qumran texts for critical biblical scholarship; points of contact with the early Jesus movement; and new developments in understanding the archaeology of the Qumran caves. The volume both honors past insights and charts new paths for the future of Qumran studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Esther, Chazon G

Clements, Ruth A.

Lange, Armin

Roitman, Adolfo D.

Schiffman, Lawrence H.

Shor, Pnina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Contributors

Part 1: The Judean Desert and the Qumran Caves

1 Roland de Vaux’s Excavations of the Qumran Caves (1949–1956), Final Report

Cave 11Q as a Starting Point

Marcello Fidanzio

2 The General Geological History and Formation of the Qumran Caves

Amos Frumkin

Part 2: Textual Criticism of Biblical Wilderness Texts

3 A Wilderness of Texts?

The Textual Plurality of the Torah and Quotations of Its Wilderness Narrative in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Armin Lange

4 Vox clamantis in deserto: the History of the Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Isaiah 40:3

Emanuel Tov

Part 3: Wilderness and Identity in Texts from Qumran

5 The Significance of the Wilderness for the Yahad of the Scrolls

John J. Collins

6 From Sinai to Qumran: Moses in the Qumran Texts

Devorah Dimant

7 Does the Use of Isaiah 40:3 Necessarily Point to the Wilderness?

John Kampen

8 “The Covenant of the First Ones,” and Their Chastisement

Leviticus 26:43–45 at Qumran

Zachary I. Levine

9 This Must Be the Place

The Zadokite Exodus in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Corrado Martone

Part 4: Conceptualizing Wilderness in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Texts

10 Revelation and Prophecy in the Wilderness

Steven D. Fraade

11 The Wilderness in the Copper Scroll (3Q15)

Jesper Høgenhaven

12 Flying over the Great Desert

Wilderness in the Cosmology of the Book of Giants and Related Texts

Søren Holst

13 Inverted World and Wilderness Imagery in 4Q179

Gideon R. Kotzé

14 Conceptualizing Wilderness

Poetic Processes and Reading Practices in the Hodayot and the Apostrophe to Zion

Hindy Najman

15 The Wilderness, Damascus, and the Land

Notions of Place in Sectarian Community Building

Eyal Regev

16 The Desert Tabernacle and the Temple of the Temple Scroll

Lawrence H. Schiffman

17 The Wilderness-Period Account in the Apocalypse of Weeks (1 Enoch 93:6) in Its Enochic Context

Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Part 5: Early Christian Wildernesses in Their Early Jewish Contexts

18 Locating the Wilderness in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament

A Study in Mutual Illumination

George J. Brooke

19 Between Wilderness Experiences and the Heavenly Presence

A Comparison of Motifs in Hebrews and 1QSerekh ha-Yahad

Michael R. Jost

20 The Woman in the Wilderness and the Wings of the Eagle in Revelation 12:14

Hermann Lichtenberger

21 Wilderness Space, Wilderness Time, Wilderness People

Daniel L. Smith

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Esther G. Chazon, Professor Emerita, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the outgoing Director of the Orion Center and serves on the Steering Committee of the International Organization for Qumran Studies and the Editorial Board of Dead Sea Discoveries.

Ruth A. Clements, ThD (1997) Harvard University, is the Orion Center’s Head of Publications. She coedited The Textual History of the Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection (Brill, 2023).

Armin Lange is professor of Second Temple Judaism and Antisemitism Studies at the University of Vienna. He has published on the Hebrew Bible, its textual criticism, Second Temple Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the religious history of antisemitism.

Adolfo D. Roitman, PhD (1993) Hebrew University, is Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. He publishes on the Scrolls and early Judaism, including The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture (Brill, 2011).

Lawrence H. Schiffman, PhD (1974) Brandeis University, is Global Distinguished Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He publishes on the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Judaism, and rabbinic literature, most recently co-editing The Temple Scroll (Brill, 2021).

Pnina Shor served as an archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority from 1978–2020, first as field archaeologist, then in managerial roles, and from 2010 as Curator and Head of Dead Sea Scrolls Projects.