The War Scroll, Violence, War and Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature - Essays in Honour of Martin G. Abegg on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

This volume of collected essays reflects on various aspects of language, text, and interpretations of war and peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple Jewish literature, with special close attention set on the Qumran War Scroll.

About the author

Kipp Davis, Ph.D. (2009), Manchester, is a scholar of early Jewish manuscripts and texts at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. His most recent monograph is The Cave 4 Apocryphon of Jeremiah C and the Qumran Jeremianic Traditions (Brill, 2014).
Kyung S. Baek, Ph.D. (cand.), Manchester, has research interests in early Jewish and Christian texts and interpretations, Christian Origins, and Second Temple Judaism. His most recent publication is Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection (SBL, 2011).
Peter W. Flint, Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies, Trinity Western University, is the editor of over twenty-five Dead Sea Scrolls, most recently, Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint, Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls (Oxford, 2010).
Dorothy M. Peters, Ph.D. is Adjunct Faculty at Trinity Western University and author of Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity (SBLEJL, 2008).

Product details

• Assisted by: Kyung S Baek (Editor), Kyung S. Baek (Editor), Kipp Davis (Editor), Peter W Flint (Editor), Peter W. Flint (Editor), Dorothy Peters (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2015
• EAN: 9789004271142
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27114-2
• No. of pages: 508
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 933 g
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the De
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations