George J. Brooke is Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, UK.

Charlotte Hempel is a Reader in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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List of Contributors
Introduction - George J. Brooke and Charlotte Hempel
I. Background
Discoveries - Hans Debel
Archaeology of Qumran - Dennis Mizzi
Manuscript Collections: An Overview - Mladen Popovic
Publication Process - Weston Fields and son
Scholarly and Popular Reception - Matthew Collins
II. Context
Ethnicity: A Fresh Religious Context of the Scrolls - Robert Kugler
The Yahad in the Context of Hellenistic Group Formation - Benedikt Eckhardt
Regional Context of the Dead Sea - Joan E. Taylor
Qumran and the Ancient Near East - Henryk Drawnel
Scrolls and Early Judaism - George J. Brooke
Scrolls and Early Christianity - Albert Hogeterp
Scrolls and Hellenistic Jewish Literature
a. Philo - Joan E. Taylor
b. Josephus - James McLaren
c. Other Literature - Matthias Henze
Scrolls and non-Jewish Hellenistic Literature - Jutta Leonhardt Balzer
III. Methods
Physicality of Manuscripts and Material Culture - Ingo Kottsieper
Scientific Technologies - Ingo Kottsieper
Reading and Reconstructing Manuscripts - Annette Steudel
Languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek - Holger Gzella
Biblical Scholarship and Qumran Studies - Reinhard G. Kratz
Scrolls and the Study of the Ancient World - Benjamin Wright
Historiography - Philip R. Davies
Social Scientific Approaches
a. Sectarianism - David Chalcraft
b. Sociolinguistics - Trine Hasselbach
c. Identity Theory - Lloyd Pietersen
Postmodern and Poststructuralist Questions - Maxine Grossman
IV. Key Texts
Aramaic Job - David Shepherd
Aramaic Levi - Vered Hillel
Authoritative Scriptures: Torah and Related Texts - Katell Berthelot
Authoritative Scriptures: Prophets and Related Texts - Roman Vielhauer
Authoritative Scriptures: Writings and Related Texts - Ulrich Dahmen
Authoritative Scriptures: Other - Kelley Coblentz Bautch and Jack Weinbender
Barkhi Nafshi - Daniel Falk
Bar Kokhba Letters - Lutz Doering
Beatitudes - Dorothy Peters
Berakhot - Daniel Falk
Commentaries on Genesis - George J. Brooke
Copper Scroll - Jesper Høgenhaven
Damascus Document (D) - Liora Goldman
Genesis Apocryphon - Daniel Machiela
Hodayot (H) - Angela Kim Harkins
Instruction - Benjamin Wold
Messianic Apocalypse - Eric Mason
Mil?amah (M) - Brian Schultz
Miq?at Ma?ase ha-Torah (MMT) - Hanne von Weissenberg
Mysteries - Samuel Thomas
New Jerusalem - Michael Langlois
Pesharim - Shani Tzoref
Rule of Blessings (Sb) - Judith Newman
Rule of Congregation (Sa) - Corrado Martone
Serekh ha-Yahad (S) - Stephen Hultgren
Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice - Judith Newman
Son of God Text - Eric Mason
Tan?umim - Jesper Hogenhaven
Temple Scroll - Joseph Angel
Testimonia - Eva Mroczek
Wiles of Wicked Woman - Michael Lesley
Words of the Luminaries - Judith Newman
V. Types of Literature
Bible - Mika Pajunen
Parabiblical Texts /Rewritten Scripture - Molly Zahn
Exegesis and Interpretation - Michael Segal
Halakhah - Vered Noam
Rules - Charlotte Hempel
Poetry and Hymns - Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
Liturgical Texts - Daniel Falk
Calendars - Helen Jacobus
Wisdom - Matthew Goff
Mystical Texts, Magic, and Divination - Gideon Bohak
VI. Issues and Topics
Patriarchs and Aramaic Traditions - Ariel Feldman
Revelation - Hindy Najman and Nick Hilton
God(s), Angels and Demons - Hanne von Weissenberg
Eschatologies and Messianisms - Kenneth E. Pomykala
Jerusalem and the Temple - Mila Ginsburskaya
Purity and Holiness - Cecilia Wassen
The Scribes of the Scrolls - Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar
Forms of Community - Alison Schofield
Daily Life - Cecilia Wassen
Ethics and Dualism - Marcus Tso
War and Violence -Alex Jassen
APPENDICES A-G - Drew Longacre, Michael DeVries
Index - Michael DeVries