LEADER 04633nam 22004093 450 001 9910869169103321 005 20240703080304.0 010 $a9783031531774 035 $a(CKB)32609617800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31507307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31507307 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932609617800041 100 $a20240703d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Dead Sea Scrolls $eNew Insights on Ancient Texts 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing AG,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (278 pages) 225 1 $aThe New Antiquity Series 311 08$a9783031531767 327 $aIntro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls? -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Judaism and Christianity -- New Insights on Ancient Texts -- Chapter 2: The Israel Antiquities Authority and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Publication -- Conservation and Preservation -- Documentation and Cataloguing -- Multispectral Imaging -- The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library -- Outcomes from the LLDSSDL -- New Technologies -- Exhibitions -- Excavations and Surveys Conducted by the IDAM and the IAA -- Activities of the Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Looting -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: A Greek-Style Bath at Qumran? -- Description of the Remains -- Humbert and Chambon's Interpretation -- Hellenistic Baths -- The Nature of the Installations in L34 -- References -- Chapter 4: Purity and Purification in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Miqva'ot of Qumran: The Convergence of Text and Archaeology -- Introduction -- Sectarianism and Ritual Purity and Impurity -- Qumran Sectarian Initiation Rites and Ritual Purity -- Miqva'ot at Qumran -- Water Supply -- Size of Miqva'ot -- Specific Locations -- Women and the Sect -- Partitions -- Conclusion: The Archaeological Evidence and the Texts -- References -- Chapter 5: Identifying the People of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Snapshot One: The Scrolls Before the Scrolls -- Snapshot Two: Sects Before Sectarianism -- Snapshot Three: The Cave 1 Community and the Qumran Essenes -- Snapshot Four: Cave 4 Complications and a Broader World -- Sectarianism and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Naming the Sectarians: A Methodological Recommendation -- References -- Chapter 6: The Scope and Purpose of Encrypted Writing at Qumran -- Brief History of Research -- Survey of the Find -- The Cryptic A Script -- Morphology of the Script. 327 $aHow Many Hands Wrote Cryptic A? -- Typology and Chronology of the Cryptic A Script -- Absolute Dating -- The Content of the Cryptic Corpus -- The Purpose of Cryptic Writing -- Coming to Terms with Secrecy in Qumran -- References -- Chapter 7: Scribes, Scrolls, and Stars in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls -- Jews and Judaism in the Early Hellenistic Age -- The Deep Past in the Early Hellenistic Age -- Studying the Cycles of the Moon, Sun, and Stars -- Exorcism, Demonology, and Spirits -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Magic and Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Retrospect and Prospect -- Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Magic in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- References -- Chapter 9: Prayer, the Divine, and the Human Self at Qumran -- Introductory Comments on Prayer at Qumran -- Recovering the Particular -- The Self at Qumran-Disembodied or Embodied? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: The Qumran Sectarians in an Imperial Context: A Postcolonial Reading of Pesher Habakkuk -- Introduction -- Historical Context -- The Kittim -- The View of Rome in Pesher Habakkuk -- A Postcolonial Reading of Pesher Habakkuk -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarship and Popular Media -- Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Cave 1 -- Edmund Wilson and The Scrolls from the Dead Sea -- John Allegro and the BBC North of England Home Service Radio Broadcasts -- Wilson and Allegro: The Two Great Popularizers Converge -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. 410 4$aThe New Antiquity Series 676 $a296.155 700 $aJassen$b Alex P$01593758 701 $aSchiffman$b Lawrence H$01024475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910869169103321 996 $aThe Dead Sea Scrolls$94171691 997 $aUNINA