The Madrid Qumran Congress (2 vols.) (Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid 18-21 March, 1991 Vol. I & II) ||

The publication of these papers marks a milestone in the ongoing research on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Includes such topics as the origins of the history of the Qumran community and the problem of the distinction between what is biblical and non-biblical in the Qumran manuscripts. THE MADRID QUMRAN CONGRESS: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls Madrid 18-21 March, 1991 3 CONTENTS 9 Introduction 11 Some Notes on a Generation of Qumran Studies 27 Some Notes on a Generation of Qumran Studies 41 Pluriformity in the Biblical Text, Text Groups, and Questions of Canon 49 The Textual Status of 4Q364-367 (4QPP) 69 The Qumran Essenes - Local Members of the Main Jewish Union in Late Second Temple Times 109 New Qumran Readings for the Joseph Story (Genesis 37-50) 193 The Text of 4QNumb 203 Considerations of 4QDtj in Light of the 'All Souls Deuteronomy' and Cave 4 Phylactery Texts 225 4Q364 & 365: A Preliminary Report 243 A Preliminary Edition of 4QKings (4Q54) 255 Textual Traditions in the Book of Hosea and the Minor Prophets 273 Textual History and Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Old Testament 283 Some Features of the Hebrew Verbal Syntax in the Qumran Hodayot 299 Celibacy in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Two Kinds of Sectarians 313 Pesher, Apocalyptical Literature and Qumran 321 The Present State of Polish Qumranology 333 Ezekiel in Some Qumran and New Testament Texts 343 Die Bedeutung der Qumrantexte für das Verständnis des Ersten Thessalonicherbriefes. Vorstellung des Münchener Projekts: Qumran und das Neue Testament - The Impact of the Qumran Scrolls on the Understanding of Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians. Presentation of the Munich Project on Qumran and the New Testament 365 Plates 381 11QTempleb. A Preliminary Publication 389 The Temple Scroll: A Systematic Bibliography 1985-1991 419 New Light from Qumran on the Jewish Pseudepigrapha - 4Q390 431 Fragments d'un apocryphe de Lévi et le personnage eschatologique. 4QTestLévic-d(?) et 4QAJa 475 The Disqualifications of Priests in 4Q Fragments of the «Damascus Document,» a Specimen of the Recovery of pre-Rabbinic Halakha 529 A Preliminary Study of 4Q373 and Some Related (?) Fragments 541 4QMidrEschat: «A Midrash on Eschatology» (4Q174 + 4Q177) 557 Shîrê 'Ôlat hash-Shabbat. Some Observations on their Calendric Implications and on their Style 569 First Day Ablutions in Qumran 587 Some Aspects of Qumranic Halakhah 597 Anti-Qumranic Polemics in the Talmud 615 Post-Biblical Sectarianism and the Priestly Schools of the Pentateuch: The Issue of Popular Participation in the Temple Cult on Festivals 627 4Q471 Fragment 1 and Ma'amadot in the War Scroll 637 The Furnishings of the Temple According to the Temple Scroll 647 The Jubilees Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 661 The Qumranic Transformation of a Cosmological and Eschatological Tradition (1QH 4:29-40) 675 The Texts from Naḥal Ṣe' elim (Wadi Seiyal) 687 Plates 693 The material presented in these two volumes may be divided into two main sections. The first section covers biblical texts and texts which fall between the categories biblical and non-biblical. It also includes articles on topics relating to the history of the Qumran community and to the study of the New Testament in the light of the Qumran discoveries. The second section covers non-biblical texts, such as the Temple Scroll. The two sections are synthesized in the article by Frank M. Cross, in which he reviews the advances made and the challenges for the future in the field of Qumran studies.Several topics recur constantly in many of the articles, such as the origins of the history of the Qumran community, the problem of the distinction between what is biblical and non-biblical in the Qumran manuscripts, and the question of the authority of the texts in the Qumran community. The material presented in these two volumes may be divided into two main sections. The first section covers biblical texts and texts which fall between the categories biblical and non-biblical. It also includes articles on topics relating to the history of the Qumran community and to the study of the New Testament in the light of the Qumran discoveries. The second section covers non-biblical texts, such as the Temple Scroll. The two sections are synthesized in the article by Frank M. Cross, in which he reviews the advances made and the challenges for the future in the field of Qumran studies. Several topics recur constantly in many of the articles, such as the origins of the history of the Qumran community, the problem of the distinction between what is biblical and non-biblical in the Qumran manuscripts, and the question of the authority of the texts in the Qumran community Some Notes On A Generation Of Qumran Studies / Frank Moore Cross. Edited By Julio Trebolle Barrera And Luis Vegas Montaner. Chiefly English; Some Articles In French And German. Includes Bibliographical References.