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Book SynopsisThe Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library presents twelve articles by renowned experts in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies. These articles explore from various angles the question of whether or not the collection of manuscripts found in the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran can be characterized as a “library,” and, if so, what the relation of that library is to the ruins of Qumran and the group of Jews that inhabited them. The essays fall into the following categories: the collection as a whole, subcollections within the overall corpus, and the implications of identifying the Qumran collection as a library.
Table of ContentsPart 1 - General Studies Devorah Dimant, “The Library of Qumran in Recent Scholarship” Årstein Justnes, “On Being a ‘Librarian’: Labels, Categories, and Classifications” Part 2 - The Greco-Roman Context Monica Berti, “Greek and Roman Libraries in the Hellenistic Age” Corrado Martone, “The Qumran Library and Other Ancient Libraries: Elements for a Comparison” Ian Werrett, “Is Qumran a Library?” Part 3 - The Collection as a Whole and the Question of a Library Sidnie White Crawford, “The Qumran Collection as a Scribal Library” Stephen Reed, “The Linguistic Diversity of Texts found at Qumran” Mladen Popović, “The Ancient ‘Library’ of Qumran between Urban and Rural Culture” Stephen Pfann, “The Ancient Library or Libraries of Qumran: The Specter of Cave 1Q” Part 4 - Collections within the Collection: Specific Evidence for a Library? Helen R. Jacobus, “Calendars in the Qumran Collection” Daniel Machiela, “The Aramaic Scrolls: Coherence and Context in the Library of Qumran” Implications for the Identification of the Qumran Collection as a Library Armin Lange, “The Qumran Library in Context: The Canonical History and Textual Standardization of the Hebrew Bible in Light of the Qumran Library”
