CELEBRATING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS a canadian …

1 CELEBRATING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLSa canadian collectionSociety of Biblical LiteratureEarly Judaism and Its LiteratureJudith H. Newman, Series EditorEditorial BoardMark J. BodaGeorge J. BrookeEsther G. ChazonSteven D. FraadeMartha HimmelfarbJames S. McLarenJacques van RuitenNumber 30 CELEBRATING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLSa canadian collectionCELEBRATING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLSa canadian collectionEdited byPeter W. Flint, Jean Duhaime, and Kyung S. BaekwithTwenty-Five Contributions byScholars of the Dead Sea SCROLLS and Related LiteratureSociety of Biblical LiteratureAtlantaCELEBRATING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLSa canadian collectionCopyright 2011 by the Society of Biblical Literature All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by means of any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher.

2 Requests for permission should be addressed in writing to the Rights and Permissions Office, Society of Biblical Literature, 825 Houston Mill Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataCelebrating the Dead Sea SCROLLS : a canadian collection / edited by Peter W. Flint,Jean Duhaime, and Kyung S. Baek. p. cm. (Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 30) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-58983-603-7 (paper binding : alk. paper) 1. Dead Sea SCROLLS . 2. Qumran community. I. Flint, Peter W. II. Duhaime, Jean. III. Baek, Kyung S. 2011b '55 dc23 201104279018 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 Printed on acid-free, recycled paper conforming toANSI /NISO 1992 (R1997) and ISO 9706:1994standards for paper .. ixTerms, Sigla, and Abbreviations .. xvPreface Peter W.

3 Flint and Jean Duhaime .. xxxviiPA RT ISURVEY OF canadian SCHOLARSHIP AND PROJECTS1. canadian Scholarship on the Dead Sea SCROLLS Eileen Schuller .. 32. Robert Balgarnie Young Scott:Canada's First Dead Sea SCROLLS Scholar Jason Kalmon and Jaqueline S. du Toit .. 213. La Biblioth que de Qumr n: Contribution canadienne une nouvelle dition des manuscrits de la mer Morte Jean Duhaime .. 43PA RT I I BIBLICAL SCROLLS AND TRANSMISSIONOF THE SCRIPTURES4. Toward a New Edition of 4 QReworked Pentateucha (4 Q158):Text, Translation, Notes, and Variants Andrew B. Perrin .. 595. Fingerprinting the Scribes: Patterns of Scribal Practicein the Biblical Texts from the Judean Desert, with Special Referenceto the Te fi l l i n Benjamin H. Parker .. 776. Photographing the Great Isaiah scroll (1 QIsaa): Collections,Techniques, and DJD 32 Peter W. Flint and Kyung S.

4 Baek .. 1057. Isaiah for the Hellenistic World:The Old Greek Translator of Isaiah Eugene Ulrich .. 1198. A Comparison of Micah 1 in the MT, the LXX, andKey Ancient Versions in Light of the Discoveriesin the Judean Desert Manuel Jinbachian .. 1359. The Biblical Dead Sea SCROLLS and Second Temple Hebrew Syntax Martin G. Abegg, Jr.. 16310. A Didactic Approach to the Biblical Dead Sea SCROLLS Emanuel Tov .. 173 PART IIITHE QUMRAN COMMUNITY11. The Historical Problem of the EssenesSteve Mason .. 20112. Religious Life at QumranDaniel K. Falk .. 25313. The Practice of Place by the Qumran CommunityWayne O. McCready .. 28714. Sectarian Truth: The Meaning of tm) in the Community RuleIan W. Scott .. 30315. Determinism in the Rule of the Community (1QS): A New PerspectiveChad Martin Stauber .. 34516. The Motif of the Eschatological Battle in the War S c roll (1QM)Ted M.

5 Erho .. 35917. Suggestions et questions propos de quelques fragmentsde textes d couverts Qumr n: 1 QpHab, 4Q161 (4 QpIsaa)et 1Q14 (1 QpMic)Robert David, with the collaboration of ric Bellavance .. 37518. Probl mes de lecture des planches de 4Q163 dans DJD VFrancis Daoust .. 395vi CONTENTS CONTENTS vii19. L'identit d' phra m et Manass dansle P sher de Nahum (4 Q169)Marie-France Dion .. 405PA RT I VQUMRAN AND SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM20. Noah Traditions within the Cultural Mosaic at Qumran:Multilingual Conversations and ControversiesDorothy M. Peters .. 43121. Toward a Study of the Uses of the Concept of Wildernessin Ancient JudaismHindy Najman .. 44722. Torah-Performance and History in the Golah: Rewritten Bibleor Re-presentational Authority in the Apocryphonof Jeremiah CC.

6 J. Patrick Davis .. 46723. The Development of Apocalyptic Historiography in Lightof the Dead Sea ScrollsLorenzo DiTommaso .. 49724. Angels and Humans: Boundaries and SynergiesCecilia Wassen .. 52325. Jesus and Psalm 91 in Light of the Exorcism ScrollsCraig A. Evans .. 541 Index of Biblical Passages .. 557 Index of Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha .. 571 Index of Dead Sea SCROLLS and Related Texts .. 574 Index of Other Ancient Writings .. 595 Index of Modern Authors and Other Contributors .. 606 Photographic Plates .. 621 ContributorseditorsPeter W. Flint Trinity Western UniversityJean DuhaimeUniversit de Montr alKyung S. BaekUniversity of ManchesterauthorsMartin G. Abegg, Jr., is Ben Zion Wacholder Professor of Dead Sea scroll studies at Trinity Western University. His most recent major publication is Th e Dead Sea SCROLLS Concordance III: Th e Biblical Texts from the Judaean Desert (Leiden: Brill, 2009), with Edward Cook and James Bowley.

7 Kyung S. Baek is pursuing studies at the University of Manchester, writ-ing a dissertation on early Jewish and Christian Scripture in the Dead Sea SCROLLS and the Gospel of Matthew. He is a Sessional Instructor in Religious Studies at Trinity Western University and a Senior Researcher for the Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea SCROLLS Studies. ric Bellavance is Lecturer at the Universit de Montr al, McGill University, and Concordia University. He is on the team of international scholars preparing the new bilingual edition of the Dead Sea SCROLLS , La biblioth que de Qumr n, with original language and facing French translation (Paris, Cerf, 2008 ). Francis Daoust is a candidate in Th eology Biblical Studies, Universit de Montr al, writing a dissertation on Belial in the Dead Sea SCROLLS . He has pub-lished an article on the War S c David is Professor of Old Testament in the Facult de th ologie et de sciences des religions, l Universit de Montr al.

8 He is preparing the French -ix-x CONTRIBUTORS critical translation of the Pesharim for the new bilingual edition of the Dead Sea SCROLLS , La biblioth que de Qumr n (Paris, Cerf, 2008 ). C. J. Patrick Davis is a Sessional Instructor in Religious Studies, Trinity West-ern University, and a Senior Researcher for the Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea SCROLLS Studies. He has published articles on Jeremiah Traditions in Second Temple Judaism, and is currently revising his thesis, Re-presentation and Emerging Authority of the Jeremiah Traditions in Second Temple Judaism (University of Manchester, 2009), for publication. Marie-France Dion is Associate Professor in the Department of Th eological Studies at Concordia University, Montr al. She is a member of the team of inter-national scholars preparing the new bilingual edition of the Dead Sea SCROLLS , La biblioth que de Qumr n, with original language and facing French translation (Paris, Cerf, 2008 ).

9 Lorenzo DiTommaso is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Montr al. He is the author or editor of numer-ous books, including Th e Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2005), Th e Dead Sea New Jerusalem Text (T bingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005), and, most recently, Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition (T bingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011 2011, co-edited with C. B ttrich). His new book, Th e Architecture of Apocalypticism (Oxford University Press), is the fi rst volume of a projected Duhaime teaches Biblical Interpretation at the Universit de Montr al (Facult de th ologie et de sciences des religions). He leads the canadian team of researchers contributing to the new bilingual edition of the Dead Sea SCROLLS , La biblioth que de Qumr n, with original language and facing French transla-tion (Paris, Cerf, 2008 ).

10 He has recently published (with Th ierry Legrand) Les Rouleaux de la mer Morte (Paris: Cerf, 2010).Jaqueline S. du Toit is Professor at the International Institute for Studies of Race, Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State (Bloem-fontein, South Africa). She is author of Textual Memory: Ancient Archives, Librar-ies and the Hebrew Bible (Sheffi eld: Sheffi eld Phoenix Press, 2011); and co-author (with Jason Kalman) of Canada s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea SCROLLS (Montr al and Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2010). Ted M. Erho is working on studies at Durham University and writing a dissertation on early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature in light of paral-lel ideas in the ancient Near East and instances of dissidence in the fi rst-century Roman world.