The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52972-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 144, 532 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1025 g

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. This volume is designed to evaluate the status quaestionis of the Dead Sea Scrolls as products of an ancient media culture, with leading scholars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and related disciplines reviewing how scholarship has addressed issues of ancient media in the past, assessing the use of media criticism in current research, and outlining potential directions for future discussions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Williams, Travis B.

Keith, Chris

Stuckenbruck, Loren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Biblische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Chris Keith

2 Studies in Ancient Media Culture: An Overview

Travis B. Williams

Part 1: Past Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media

3 Textuality and the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Examination of Modern Approaches and Recent Trends

Travis B. Williams

4 Is There a Spoken Voice in This Cave? Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Shem Miller

5 Ritual Studies and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Review

Michael DeVries and Jutta Jokiranta

Part 2: Present Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media

6 Book Production and Circulation in Ancient Judaea: Evidenced by Writing Quality and Skills in the Dead Sea Scrolls Isaiah and Serekh Manuscripts

Mladen Popovic

7 4Q169 (Pesher Nahum) in Its Ancient Media Context

Pieter B. Hartog

8 The Copper Scroll: The Medium, the Context and the Archaeology

Joan E. Taylor

9 Curated Communities: Refracted Realities at Qumran and on Social Media

Charlotte Hempel

10 Orality and Written-ness in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Where Have We Got to and Where Are We Going?

George J. Brooke

11 Rituals as Media: Shared, Embodied, and Extended Knowledge Mediation in Rituals

Jutta Jokiranta

12 Rations, Refreshments, Reading, and Revelation: The Multifunction of the Common Meal in the Qumran Movement

Cecilia Wassén

Part 3: Future Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media

13 Mediated Textuality: Ambient Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Maxine L. Grossman

14 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A View from New Testament Studies

Chris Keith

15 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Classicist’s View

William A. Johnson

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Travis B. Williams, Ph.D. (2011), University of Exeter, is Professor of Religion at Tusculum University. He has published numerous monographs and articles on various topics related to ancient Judaism and early Christianity, including History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge, 2019).

Chris Keith, Ph.D. (2008), University of Edinburgh, is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. He serves as the editor of the Library of New Testament Studies and his most recent book is The Gospel as Manuscript: An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ph.D. (1994), Princeton Theological Seminary, is Professor of New Testament at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München. He has acted as editor for a number of journals and monograph series, and has published a number of monographs, edited nearly twenty books, and 160 articles in the areas of New Testament, Second Temple Jewish, early Christian tradition, and Ethiopian studies, including The Myth of Rebellious Angels (Mohr Siebeck and Eerdmans, 2017).