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 book of Jeremiah plays an unusual role in the Dead Sea Scrolls. 1 In contrast to many
other prophetic books, no pesher on the book of Jeremiah is preserved. Instead, several …

The figure of Babylon became a symbol of any oppressive empire in Jewish as well as
Christian literature. This essay proposes that the particular placement of the oracles against …

The extent of Judean literary activity in the early Hellenistic period and its impact on the
formation of the Hebrew Bible is a much debated issue in biblical scholarship, especially …

This essay will argue that the evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls offers important
contributions to the scholarly debate on the question of Yahwistic diversity in the land of …

Recent scholarship has ascribed much of the post-exilic growth of (what became) the
biblical scriptures to Jerusalem scribes of the Persian and early Hellenistic periods …