Front matter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- The Bible Interpreting Itself / Bar-Asher, Moshe -- Textual Harmonization in the Stories of the Patriarchs / Tov, Emanuel -- Where Are the Patriarchs in the Literature of Qumran? / Bernstein, Moshe J. -- The First Patriarchs: Law and Narrative in the Garden of Eden Story / Segal, Michael -- The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Perspective of Qumran Hebrew Texts / Dimant, Devorah -- The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Biblical Perspective / Kratz, Reinhard G. -- Sodom and Gomorrah: From the Bible to Qumran / Vielhauer, Roman -- Jacob and His House in the Scrolls from Qumran / Brooke, George J. -- With My Sword and Bow: Jacob as Warrior in Jubilees / Livneh, Atar -- Levi, the Levites, and the Law / Samuel, Harald -- The Burial of the Fathers in the Visions of Amram from Qumran / Goldman, Liora -- The Patriarchs and Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Schiffman, Lawrence H. -- Shabbat, Circumcision and Circumcision on Shabbat in Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Shemesh, Aharon -- Index |