Friday, December 08, 2017

Hempel and Brooke (eds.), T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls

NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK:
T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls

Editor(s): Charlotte Hempel, George J. Brooke
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Published: 12-07-2018
Format: Hardback
Edition: 1st
Extent: 512
ISBN: 9780567352057
Imprint: T&T Clark
Series: Bloomsbury Companions
Illustrations: 60 bw and colour illus
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm

RRP: £130.00
Online price: £117.00

About T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls
This companion provides the ideal resource for those seriously engaging with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

In 30 concise articles all of the key texts and documents are examined. A section on the complex methods used in anaylzing the scrolls then follows before the focus moves to consideration of the scrolls in their various contexts; political, religious, cultural, economic, historical. The genres ascribed to groups of texts within the scrolls are examined in the next section with due attention given to both past and present scholarship. The main body of the companion then concludes with crucial issues and topics discussed by leading scholars. The book finishes with appendices and indexes giving: timelines, lists of kings, family trees of the Seleucids, Ptolemies, Hasmoneans, lists of places and scrolls, information on electronic resources and classified bibliographies. The volume is illustrated throughout with some 60 images enabling readers to consider key texts from the scrolls not only in transcription but simultaneously with photographs.

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