"The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran.In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran Sidnie White Crawford combines those conclusions of the ..."
"Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times investigates the phenomenon of inner-scriptural exegesis in six of the major works found at Qumran: the pre-Samaritan Scripture texts; Reworked Pentateuch; the Temple Scroll; Jubilees; the Genesis Apocryphon; and Commentary on Genesis A. What these works show, contends Sidnie White Crawford, is that there was a spectrum of texts, beginning with the scriptural text, moving to a harmonized scrip ..."
"The Temple Scroll and Related Texts, one of the series Companion to the Qumran Scrolls, is a comprehensive roadmap to the Temple Scroll, the longest and one of the most complex of the manuscripts from Qumran. The central chapter contains a discussion of the contents of the Temple Scroll, including sections on the Temple and its courts, purity regulation, the festival calendar, and the Deuteronomic Paraphrase with the Law of the King. Th ..."
"Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem. This short novella was somewhat surprisingly included in the early Christian versions of the Old Testament and has played an important role in the Western tradition ever since. This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the text's composition and its mean ..."
"The proceedings of a symposium entitled Esther 2000 held in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska in April 2000, the book contains a collection of essays that engages all aspects of the biblical book of Esther. From questions of textual criticism to the history of rabbinic interpretation to speculation on the modern form of commentary, this collection is sure to contain something for everyone interested in the book of Esther. Contributors include ..."
Jubilees(1st Edition) A Commentary in Two Volumes (Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible) (Hermeneia: A Critical & Historical Commentary on the Bible) by James C. Vanderkam, SidnieWhiteCrawford Hardcover, 1,625 Pages, Published 2018 by Fortress Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8006-6035-2, ISBN: 0-8006-6035-8
"Jubilees--so called because of its concern with marking forty-nine-year periods (or "jubilees") in Israel's history--is an ancient rewriting of Genesis and the first part of Exodus from the point of view of an anonymous second-century BCE Jewish author. Its distinctive perspective--as well as its apparent popularity at Qumran--make it particularly important for any reconstruction of early Judaism. James C. VanderKam, the world's foremos ..."
"This volume continues the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains twenty-four Hebrew manuscripts of the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Kings. These texts antedate by a millennium those that had previously held the title of the earliest surviving Hebrew biblical manuscripts. They document a pluriformity acceptable in the ancient biblical textual tradition ..."
Deuteronomy by SidnieWhiteCrawford Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514755-1, ISBN: 0-19-514755-3
"Both are part of the visual history of the Esther scroll. And there is appropriate
and intrinsic irony in this. Key elements of the narrative revolve around
hiddenness, not only of Esther's identity but of her redemptive plan and even
Haman's motives (he actually hates Mordecai rather than the Jews per se). Yet
the role of such visual adornment is revelation of that which is hidden (as it is for
verbal midrash). Thus, when we enter ..."
"P. Callaway, 'Extending Divine Revelation: Micro-Compositional Strategies in the
Temple Scroll', in G. Brooke (ed.), Temple Scroll Studies: Papers Presented at the
International Symposium on the Temple Scroll, Manchester, December, 1987 (
Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989), pp. 149-62. S.W. Crawford, 'The “Rewritten Bible”
at Qumran: A Look at Three Texts', Eretz Israel 26 (1999), pp. 1-8. M. Fishbane, “
Inner Biblical Exegesis: Types and ..."
"The proceedings of a symposium entitled Esther 2000 held in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska in April 2000, the book contains a collection of essays that engages all aspects of the biblical book of Esther. From questions of textual criticism to the history of rabbinic interpretation to speculation on the modern form of commentary, this collection is sure to contain something for everyone interested in the book of Esther. Contributors include ..."
"Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story."
"The Dead Sea Scrolls are a household name, yet many people do not know what they say or why they are important. The Dead Sea Scrolls provides all the background they will need to appreciate these unique ancient documents. Readers will learn how the Scrolls were found, how they became embroiled in controversy, what light they shed on our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, and how they have helped scholars understand the dev ..."
"In Apocalyptic Thinking leading experts critically engage with John Collins’ seminal study The Apocalyptic Imagination and advance the debate on ancient Jewish apocalyptic with articles on current topics with a special focus on the Dead Sea Scrolls."
"The 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 Jew ..."
The Text of the Pentateuch(1st Edition) Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 493) by Crawford, SidnieWhite Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 2022 by De Gruyter ISBN-13: 978-3-11-046584-6, ISBN: 3-11-046584-1