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The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche
Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old
Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms
in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring
cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.
This book springs from the Bristol-Sheffield Hallam Colloquium on
Contemporary Antisemitism at the University of Bristol in September
2015. International experts in Religious Studies, Law, Politics,
Sociology, Psychology, and History came together to examine the
complexities of contemporary antisemitism. Recent attacks on Jews
in European cities have increased awareness of antisemitism and, as
this collection shows, such attacks cannot be separated from wider
geo-political and ideological factors. One distinct feature of
antisemitism today is its demonization of the State of Israel.
Older ideas also feature Jews being blamed for all the world's
ills, thought to possess almost supernatural levels of power and
wealth, and conspiring to harm the non-Jewish other. These and
other ideas forming the background to antisemitism in Europe and
North America are unpacked in this book with a view to
understanding - and thereby combatting - contemporary antisemitism.
A key concern is how unifying features might be isolated amid the
diverse manifestations of this oldest of hatreds.
Jonathan G. Campbell provides an introduction to eight sectarian
manuscripts from among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls that can loosely
be called the 'Exegetical Texts'. He examines their contents,
background, genre, and significance and he provides a history of
the relevant research. The Exegetical Texts constitute a
particularly diverse strand of sectarian compositions among the
Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. For this reason, the eight documents are
treated in turn in more or less equal measure, with two
introductory chapters to set the scene and a conclusion drawing the
discussion to a close. Each chapter can be read either alone in its
own right or together with the others to gain a broader picture. In
order to encourage the reader to encounter the relevant Qumran
documents firsthand extensive listings of editions in Hebrew and
English are provided. The contributors to the Companion to the
Qumran Scrolls series take account of a wide range of relevant and
recently published texts and provide extensive bibliographies. The
books in the series are authoritatively written in accessible
language and are ideal for students and non-specialist scholars.
Companion to the Qumran Scrolls, volume 4
Fifty years after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls there have
been many advances in the field of Qumran Studies. Yet much work
remains undone. In particular the study of the scrolls has
continued to follow long established historical critical methods
while largely falling to incorporate recent advances in literary,
ideological and sociological approaches. The essays collected here
are the result of the Bristol Colloquium on the Dead Sea Scrolls
held in September 2003. Here, ten scholars working in a diversity
of areas demonstrate how these recent advances in scholarship
increase our knowledge of the scrolls, their historical context,
and their impact on modern critical scholarship. The contributors
consider a wide range of approaches, ranging across discussions in
sociology, anthropology, literary studies, post-colonialism and
ideological criticism. These essays will help to take Qumran
Studies forward in new and creative ways. This is volume 52 in the
Library of Second Temple Studies series (formerly the Journal for
the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement series).
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