The articles in this volume examine the use and interpretation of the Bible in apocryphal and related texts found at Qumran. The authority of these texts, legal and narrative exegesis, exegetical techniques, motifs and genres are key issues.
Esther G. Chazon, Ph.D. (1992), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Director of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Devorah Dimant, Ph.D. (1973, Hebrew University) is Professor of Bible at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research areas are: Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, Jewish Hellenistic literature, Ancient Jewish exegesis, Jewish literature of the Second Temple period. Ruth A. Clements, Th.D. (1997) in Christian Origins, is Head of Publications for the Orion Center. She has published on early Christian and Jewish biblical interpretation and co-edited several volumes on Qumran literature, including Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill, 2004).
