Judaism in Late Antiquity ― The Judaism of Qumran : A Systemic Reading of the Dead Sea Scrolls : Theory of Israel

In this volume, the authors ask of the documents of the Dead Sea Library found at Qumran a simple question: how does each participate in a single Judaic religious system? Their analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls describes how diverse writings stand for a religious system possessed of integrity and wisdom.

Alan J. Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies in the Religious Studies Department of the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Previously he held the post of Professor of Classical Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, where he was also director of the Jewish Studies Program. Alongside his many publications on Rabbinic Judaism, he is editor ofReview of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern. Jacob Neusner, Ph.D., Columbia University, is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. He has published more than 800 books and is Editor of The Brill Reference Library of Ancient Judaism: Studies in Ancient Judaism (University Press of America);Academic Studies in the History of Judaism, Academic Studies on Religion and the Social Order, andInternational Studies in Formative Christianity and Judaism (all published by Global Publications, SUNY, Binghamton).Bruce Chilton, Bard College, is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism, who has authored the first critical translation of the Aramaic version of Isaiah (The Isaiah Targum, 1987), as well as academic studies that put Jesus in his Jewish context (A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible, 1984;The Temple of Jesus, 1992; Pure Kingdom, 1996; Rabbi Jesus, 2000).