Course Description
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is undoubtedly one of the major events in modern scholarship. The great number of fragments that came to light between 1947 and 1956, in fact, offer an amazing amount of information about the culture and literature of Second Temple Judaism and the beginning of Christianity – to name only the most important field of research related to the DSS. The Dead Sea manuscripts may especially allow significant insights about the transmission and reception of biblical books in the Second Temple period. In the course, therefore, special attention will be given to what DSS reveal about the way biblical books were transmitted, canonized, interpreted, and used in liturgy and personal piety. The book of Psalms will be used as a case in point.
Bibliography
F. GARCÍA MARTINEZ – E.J.C. TIGCHELAAR (edd.), Dead Sea Scrolls. Study Edition. I-II, Leiden-New York-Köln 1999-2000.
T.H. LIM – J.J. COLLINS, «Introduction: Current Issues in Dead Sea Scrolls Research», The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
T.H. LIM – J.J. COLLINS edd. Oxford 2010, 1-20.
C.D. ELLEDGE, The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Archaeology and Biblical Studies, 14; Atlanta 2005.
M. PAJUNEN, «Bible», T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls,
G.J. BROOKE – C. HEMPEL edd., London-New York 2019. 369-377.