Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls

Peter W. Flint holds the Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies and is Professor of Religious Studies at Trinity Western University, British Columbia. He has published extensively on the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls and has edited over twenty-five Scrolls.
Jean Duhaime is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at the Théologie et sciences des religions, Université de Montréal, Canada. He has published on dualism, eschatological war, and messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Kyung S. Baek is a Ph.D. student at the University of Manchester, a researcher for the Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies, an instructor at Trinity Western University, and does research in the Dead Sea Scrolls and biblical interpretation in the broader context of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins.

Contributors
Terms, Sigla, and Abbreviations
Preface
Peter W. Flint and Jean Duhaime

PART I
SURVEY OF CANADIAN SCHOLARSHIP AND PROJECTS
1. Canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Eileen Schuller
2. Robert Balgarnie Young Scott: Canada's First Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar
Jason Kalmon and Jaqueline S. du Toit
3. La Bibliotheque de Qumran: Contribution canadienne à une nouvelle édition des manuscrits de la mer Morte
Jean Duhaime

PART II
“BIBLICAL” SCROLLS AND TRANSMISSION OF THE SCRIPTURES
4. Toward a New Edition of 4QReworked Pentateucha (4Q158): Text, Translation, Notes, and Variants
Andrew B. Perrin
5. Fingerprinting the Scribes: Patterns of Scribal Practice in the Biblical Texts from the Judean Desert, with Special Reference to the Tefillin
Benjamin H. Parker
6. Photographing the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa): Collections, Techniques, and DJD 32
Peter W. Flint and Kyung S. Baek
7. Isaiah for the Hellenistic World: The Old Greek Translator of Isaiah
Eugene Ulrich
8. A Comparison of Micah 1 in the MT, the LXX, and Key Ancient Versions in Light of the Discoveries
in the Judean Desert
Manuel Jinbachian
9. The Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Hebrew Syntax
Martin G. Abegg, Jr
10. A Didactic Approach to the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls
Emanuel Tov

PART III
THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY
11. The Historical Problem of the Essenes
Steve Mason
12. Religious Life at Qumran
Daniel K. Falk
13. The Practice of Place by the Qumran Community
Wayne O. McCready
14. Sectarian Truth: The Meaning of tm) in the Community Rule
Ian W. Scott
15. Determinism in the Rule of the Community (1QS): A New Perspective
Chad Martin Stauber
16. The Motif of the Eschatological Battle in the War Scroll (1QM)
Ted M. Erho
17. Suggestions et questions à propos de quelques fragments de textes découverts à Qumrân: 1QpHab, 4Q161 (4QpIsaa) et 1Q14 (1QpMic)
Robert David, with the collaboration of Eric Bellavance
18. Problèmes de lecture des planches de 4Q163 dans DJD V
Francis Daoust
19. L'identité d'Éphraïm et Manassé dans le Pesher de Nahum (4Q169)
Marie-France Dion

PART IV
QUMRAN AND SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM
20. Noah Traditions within the Cultural Mosaic at Qumran: Multilingual Conversations and Controversies
Dorothy M. Peters
21. Toward a Study of the Uses of the Concept of Wilderness in Ancient Judaism
Hindy Najman
22. Torah-Performance and History in the Golah: Rewritten Bible or “Re-presentational” Authority in the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C
C. J. Patrick Davis
23. The Development of Apocalyptic Historiography in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Lorenzo DiTommaso
24. Angels and Humans: Boundaries and Synergies
Cecilia Wassen
25. Jesus and Psalm 91 in Light of the Exorcism Scrolls
Craig A. Evans
Index of Biblical Passages
Index of Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Index of Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Texts
Index of Other Ancient Writings
Index of Modern Authors and Other Contributors
Photographic Plates