Eschewing the search for the hypothetical original, this volume of essays places manuscripts
and manuscript culture center stage and provides new readings of texts from various …

Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but
this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of …

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 …

Hanna Tervanotko first analyzes the treatment and development of Miriam as a literary
character in ancient Jewish texts, taking into account all the references to this figure …

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 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has profoundly transformed our understanding of
how texts were produced and transmitted in Jewish antiquity, and this new understanding is …

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 book contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Scrolls as an essential and integral
part of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. The Qumran manuscripts attest to the …

Drawing on insights from the field of Book History, the article draws out connections between
the material aspects of the Qumran corpus on the one hand and textual pluriformity on the …

It is often presumed that biblical redaction was invariably done using scribal methods,
meaning that when editors sought to modify or compile existing texts, they would do so in the …