Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls : a Canadian collection / edited by Peter W. Flint, Jean Duhaime, and Kyung S. Baek ; with twenty-five contributions by scholars of the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature.

xli, 621 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. ports. ; 25 cm.Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 30Includes bibliographical references and indexes.pt. 1. Survey of Canadian scholarship and projects. Canadian scholarship on the Dead Sea scrolls -- Robert Balgarnie Young Scott : Canada's first Dead Sea scrolls scholar -- La Bibliothéque de Qumrân : contribution canadienne à une nouvelle édition des manuscrits de la mer Morte -- pt. 2. "Biblical" scrolls and transmission of the scriptures. Toward a new edition of 4QReworked Pentateuchª (4Q158) : text, translation, notes and variants -- Fingerprinting the scribes : patterns of scribal practice in the biblical texts from the Judean desert, with special reference to the Tefillin -- Photographing the Great Isaiash Scroll (1QIsaª) : collections, techniques and DJD 32 -- Isaiah for the Hellenistic world : the old Greek translator of Isaiah -- A comparison of Micah 1 in the MT, the LXX and key ancient versions in light of the discoveries in the Judean desert -- The biblical Dead Sea scrolls and Second Temple Hebrew syntax -- A didactic approach to the biblical Dead Sea scrolls -- pt. 3. The Qumran community. The historical problem of the Essenes -- Religious life at Qumran -- The practice of place by the Qumran community -- Sectarian truth : the meaning of ??? in the Community Rule -- Determinism in the Rule of the Community (1QS) : a new perspective -- The motif of the eschatological battle in the War scroll (1QM) -- Suggestions et questions à propos de quelques fragments de textes découverts à Qumrân : 1QpHab, 4Q161 (4QpIsaª) et 1Q14 (1QpMic) -- Problèmes de lecture des planches de 4Q163 dans DJD V -- L'identité d'Éphraïm et Manassé dans le Pésher de Nahum (4Q169) -- pt. 4. Qumran and Second Temple Judaism. Noah traditions within the cultural mosaic at Qumran : multilingual conversations and controversies -- Toward a study of the uses of the concept Wilderness in ancient Judaism -- Torah-performance and history in the Golah : rewritten Bible or "re-presentational" authority in the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C -- The development of apocalyptic historiography in light of the Dead Sea scrolls -- Angels and humans : boundaries and synergies -- Jesus and Psalm 91 in light of exorcism scrolls.Text in English; some text in French.

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