The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls - Technological Innovations, New Texts, and Reformulated Issues

This volume contains the most recent scholarship on a number of issues and topics presented at an international conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls, held at Provo, Utah, July 15-17, 1996. Forty-three articles examine various aspects of the Scrolls, placed under the following divisions: Technology, Editions and Analyses of Texts, The Qumran Community, Calendar, Levi and the Priesthood, Messianism and Eschatology, and Wisdom and Liturgy.

About the author

Donald W. Parry, Ph.D. in Hebrew Literature and Language, a member of the international team of editors working on the Dead Sea Scrolls, author or editor of ten books and forty-five articles. Among his published works are Current Research and Technological Developments on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill, 1996) and he co-authored with Elisha Qimron, The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa-a): A New Edition (Brill, 1999).
Eugene W. Ulrich, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame, is Chief Editor of the Biblical Scrolls. One of the translators of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, he has co-edited four volumes in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert.

Product details

• Assisted by: Donald Parry (Editor), Eugene Ulrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.1998
• EAN: 9789004111554
• ISBN: 978-90-04-11155-4
• No. of pages: 712
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 49 mm
• Weight: 1383 g
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the De
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations