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Qumran studies : new approaches, new questions / edited by Michael Thomas Davis & Brent A. Strawn ; foreword by James A. Sanders. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007. - xxvii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / James A. Sanders -- Preface / Michael Thomas Davis and Brent A. Strawn -- Introduction / Michael Thomas Davis and Brent A. Strawn -- 4QLXXLev and proto-septuagint studies : reassessing Qumran evidence for the urtext theory / John B. Faulkenberry Miller -- Identifying compositions and traditions of the Qumran community : the songs of the sabbath sacrifice as a test case / Henry W. Morisada Rietz -- (More) sectarian terminology in the songs of the sabbath sacrifice / Brent A. Strawn with Henry W. Morisada Rietz -- Excerpted "non-biblical" scrolls at Qumran? : background, analogies, function / Brent A. Strawn -- Temporal shifts from text to interpretation : concerning the use of the perfect and imperfect in the Habakkuk Pesher (1QpHab) / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- The temporal relationship between the covenant renewal rite and the initiation process in 1QS / Michael A. Daise -- An elite group within the Yaḥad : revisiting 1QS 8-9 / Shane A. Berg -- The prince of the congregation : Qumran "messianism" in the context of Milḥāmâ / C.D. Elledge -- 4Q521 : the works of the Messiah or the signs of the messianic time? / Lidija Novakovic -- The concept of unity at Qumran / Carsten Claussen and Michael Thomas Davis -- Identity and resistance : the varieties of competing models in early Judaism / Loren L. Johns.

ISBN: 080286080X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780802860804 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2007009302

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Qumran community.

LC Class. No.: BM 488.5 / .Q86 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 296.155 / D295q