Until recently, most non-biblical manuscripts attested in the
Qumran library were regarded as copies of texts that were composed
after the books of the Hebrew Bible were written. Students of the
Hebrew Bible found the Dead Sea Scrolls therefore mostly of
interest for the textual and interpretative histories of these
books. The present collection confirms the importance of the Dead
Sea Scrolls for both areas, by showing that they have
revolutionized our understanding of how the text of the biblical
books developed and how they were interpreted. Beyond the textual
and interpretative histories, though, many texts attested in the
Qumran library illuminate the time in which the later books of the
Hebrew Bible were composed and reworked as well as Jewish life and
law in the time when the canon of the Hebrew Bible developed. This
volume gives important examples as to how the early texts attested
in the Dead Sea Scrolls help to better understand individual
biblical books and as to how the later texts among them illustrate
Jewish life and law when the canon of the Hebrew Bible evolved. In
order to find an adequate expertise for the seminar The Dead Sea
Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible, the editors invited both junior and
senior specialists in the fields of Hebrew Bible, Second Temple
Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinics to Rome.
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