The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective ─ A History of Research

This anthology was conceived to differ from the many other histories of scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls by recognizing the very different and often contrasting approaches and directions of scholarship, and to preserve the experiences of the aging and retiring second generation of international researchers, who worked personally with the first generation, now gone. Contributors reflect on scholarship in their own country, emphasizing the national interests that have shaped it there. Among the topics are research on the sectarian scrolls in North America, Canadian scholarship, trends and themes in Israeli research of the Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran research in France, German-speaking countries, and eastern and central Europe. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Devorah Dimant, Ph.D. (1974), Hebrew Univerity in Jerusalem, Professor (em.) for Ancient Jewish Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel. Has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. She has produced first editions of several Qumran scrolls in Qumran Cave 4.XXI: Parabiblical Texts, Part 4: Pseudo-Prophetic Texts (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXX; Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2001) .