Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the
multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls …

Scholars have used mathematical models to estimate the missing length of deteriorated
scrolls from ancient Egypt, Qumran, Herculaneum, and elsewhere. Based on such …

An exegetical and diachronic survey of messianic texts from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish
tradition up through the first millennium CE. Jewish messianism can be traced back to the …

The diverse collection of material related to Jubilees found at Qumran suggests that the work
did not have a single textual or literary form in the late Second Temple period. Fragments of …

This project reimagines the textual history of the Animal Apocalypse, a subsection of an
early Jewish work called 1 Enoch, which narrates a history of the Israelites and their …

Despite many extraordinary claims about the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls in
religious, cultural, and political contexts, a systematic analysis of the editions of the Dead …

“The Torah” in the sense of “Pentateuch” received its final shape in the fourth century BCE
as a document of compromise and redactional design. 1 The Pentateuch did not and could …

In the context of the study of Hebrew Bible manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Cairo
Genizah, and European Genizah, an essay on Jubilees may seem out of place. There are …

A widespread consensus underscores a substantially constant and more or less fixed
Ethiopic text of the Book of Jubilees that also includes the early Hebrew manuscripts from …