The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions: Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of the IOQS in Helsinki

Recent Dead Sea Scrolls research pays much attention to the question which texts were seen as scriptures, in which forms scriptures as well as scriptural traditions were transmitted, how the scrolls can illuminate the gradual move from authoritative scriptural texts to canon, and which different kinds of scriptural interpretation are attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls. This volume contains twelve essays read at the seventh meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies that address these questions either broadly, or in relation to specific texts.

George J. Brooke, Ph.D. Claremont, D.D. Oxford, is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, University of Manchester, England. Amongst many other publications, especially on the Scrolls, he has co-edited The Significance of Sinai (Brill, 2008) and The Mermaid and the Partridge (Brill, 2011).

Daniel K. Falk (Ph.D. Cambridge 1996) is Professor of Ancient Judaism and Biblical Studies at the University of Oregon. His is author of Daily, Sabbath, and Festival Prayers in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998) and Parabiblical Texts (2007).

Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, Ph.D. (1994), University of Groningen, is Research Professor at the KU Leuven. Amongst other publications, mainly on the Scrolls, he has co-edited Qumran Cave 1 Revisited (Brill, 2010).

Molly Zahn, Ph.D. (2009), University of Notre Dame, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Rethinking Rewritten Scripture: Composition and Exegesis in the 4QReworked Pentateuch Manuscripts (Brill, 2011).