Contents

Abbreviations Including Frequently Cited Sources

Bibliography of the Writings of George J. Brooke

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Is There a Text in This Cave?

Are There Sacred Texts in Qumran? The Concept of Sacred Text in Light of the Qumran Collection

Textual Authority and the Problem of the Biblical Canon at Qumran

Reflections on Literacy, Textuality, and Community in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls

Scribal Bodies as Liturgical Bodies: The Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism

Qumran Cave 4: Its Archaeology and its Manuscript Collection

Part 2 Fresh Perspectives on Fragmentary Scrolls

Un nouveau manuscrit de Daniel : 4QDnf = 4Q116a

4Q341: A Writing Exercise Remembered

4Q47 (4QJosha): An Abbreviated Text?

Memories of Amalek (4Q252 4:1–3): The Imprecatory Function of the Edomite Genealogy in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Part 3 Reading Texts within Texts

Texts within Texts: The Text of Jeremiah in the Exegetical Literature from Qumran

Text, Intertext, and Conceptual Identity: The Case of Ephraim and the Seekers of Smooth Things

Strangers to the “Biblical Scrolls”: Balaam’s Fourth Oracle (Num 24:15–19) and its Links to Other Unique Excerpted Texts

Deriving Negative Anthropology through Exegetical Activity: The Hodayot as Case Study

Part 4 Texts, Scribes, and Textual Growth

The Tefillin from the Judean Desert and the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

Dittography and Copying Lines in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Considering George Brooke’s Proposal about 1QpHab 7:1–2

Pseudepigraphy and a Scribal Sense of the Past in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Copy of the Book of the Words of the Vision of Amram

The Textual Growth of the Damascus Document Revisited

Medieval Hebrew Tellings of Tobit: “Versions” of the Book of Tobit or New Texts?

Part 5 Old Texts, New Insights

Some Thoughts on the Relationship between the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon

Tobit and the Qumran Aramaic Texts

Metaphor and Eschatology: Life beyond Death in the Hodayot

The Book of HGY and Ancient Reading Practices

Ritualization and the Power of Listing in 4QBerakhota (4Q286)

Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Period: Towards the Study of a Semantic Constellation

In the Garden of Good and Evil: Reimagining a Tradition (Sir 17:1–14, 4Q303, 4QInstruction,1QS 4:25–26, and 1QSa 1:10–11)

How Should We Feel about the Teacher of Righteousness?

The Teacher of Righteousness and His Enemies

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Subjects