How Many Hands Wrote Cryptic A? -- Typology and Chronology of the Cryptic A Script -- Absolute Dating -- The Content of the Cryptic Corpus -- The Purpose of Cryptic Writing -- Coming to Terms with Secrecy in Qumran -- References -- Chapter 7: Scribes, Scrolls, and Stars in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls -- Jews and Judaism in the Early Hellenistic Age -- The Deep Past in the Early Hellenistic Age -- Studying the Cycles of the Moon, Sun, and Stars -- Exorcism, Demonology, and Spirits -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Magic and Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Retrospect and Prospect -- Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Magic in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- References -- Chapter 9: Prayer, the Divine, and the Human Self at Qumran -- Introductory Comments on Prayer at Qumran -- Recovering the Particular -- The Self at Qumran-Disembodied or Embodied? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: The Qumran Sectarians in an Imperial Context: A Postcolonial Reading of Pesher Habakkuk -- Introduction -- Historical Context -- The Kittim -- The View of Rome in Pesher Habakkuk -- A Postcolonial Reading of Pesher Habakkuk -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarship and Popular Media -- Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Cave 1 -- Edmund Wilson and The Scrolls from the Dead Sea -- John Allegro and the BBC North of England Home Service Radio Broadcasts -- Wilson and Allegro: The Two Great Popularizers Converge -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. |