New Perspectives on Old Texts - Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 9-11 January, 2005

This volume presents new perspectives on the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. New methodologies and topics include identity, memory, ritual theory, sectarian sociology, philosophy of education, liturgical anthropology, Jewish law, history of religion, and mysticism.

About the author

Esther G. Chazon is Head of the Academic Committee of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published extensively on liturgy and Qumran.

Betsy Halpern-Amaru is Professor of Religion, Emeritus at Vassar College. She has authored Rewriting the Bible: Land and Covenant in Postbiblical Jewish Literature and The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees, and is currently completing a book on Exodus and the Book of Jubilees.

Ruth A. Clements is Chief of Publications for the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, co-author of The Orion Center Bibliography (2000-2006), and co-editor of Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity.

Product details

• Assisted by: Esther G Chazon (Editor), Esther G. Chazon (Editor), Ruth Clements (Editor), Betsy Halpern-Amaru (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2010
• EAN: 9789004183070
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18307-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 246 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the De
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism