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The Dead Sea Scrolls at Sixty Gary A. Rendsburg Rutgers University Part 1: The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Story in Itself (May 4) Part 2: The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Story Continues (May 11) 1 Qumran caves Qumran

  1. The Dead Sea Scrolls at Sixty Gary A. Rendsburg Rutgers University Part 1: The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Story in Itself (May 4) Part 2: The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Story Continues (May 11) 1

  2. Qumran caves Qumran caves Qumran caves Qumran Cave One 2

  3. Muhammad edh-Dhib and colleague Kando Eleazar L. Sukenik (1889-1953) Second Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa b ) 3

  4. War Scroll (1QM) Hodayot Scroll (Thanksgiving Hymns) (1QH) Kando Hodayot Scroll (Thanksgiving Hymns) (1QH) Mar Samuel First Isaiah The Syrian Scroll Metropolitan (1QIsa a ) 4

  5. Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab) Community Rule (Manual of Discipline) (1QS) Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen) [midrashic text dealing with Noah and Abraham] American Schools of Oriental Research (Jerusalem) Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? 5

  6. Four Sects mentioned by Essenes: Josephus (c. 80 C.E.) • Communal life style • Initiation rites • Sadducees • Predetermination • Pharisees • Some were celibate (see also Philo) • Essenes • Strict interpretation of Jewish law • Zealots Pliny the Elder (23-79 C.E.), Natural History (77 C.E.) Community Rule Locates the Essenes living (Manual of Discipline) “above Ein Gedi” (1QS) “with no women among them, renouncing desire entirely, without money, with (only) palm trees for company” Community Rule (Manual of Discipline) (1QS) Not a single mention of women in the 11-column text 6

  7. Mar Samuel The Syrian Metropolitan First Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a ) Yigael Yadin (1917-1984) Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab) Community Rule (Manual of Discipline) (1QS) 7

  8. Genesis Yigael Apocryphon Yadin (1QapGen) (1917- 1984) [midrashic text dealing with with Noah James and Abraham] Biberkraut (Chemistry professor) Shrine of the Book – רפסה לכיה Israel Museum – לארשי ןואזומ Qumran caves Opened 1965 Qumran caves Qumran caves 8

  9. Père Roland de Vaux, O.P. (1903-1971) Khirbet Qumran École biblique et archéologique française The Pantry The Dining Hall 9

  10. The Scriptorium Writing Tables displayed at the Rockefeller Museum Water Large Channel Cistern 10

  11. Miqveh Qumran cemetery Ein Fashha 11

  12. Entrance to Qumran Cave 4 Qumran Cave 4 581 texts from 4Q364 Qumran Cave 4 4Q365 Reworked alone Pentateuch 4Q303 – Palestine Archaeological 4Q307 Museum Miscellaneous – Texts Rockefeller Museum 12

  13. Scrollery at the Rockefeller Museum (PAM) Every biblical book (except Esther) is represented Best attested ones are: Psalms – 39 Numbers – 12 Deuteronomy – 31 The Twelve – 10 Isaiah – 22 Daniel – 8 Genesis – 18 Ezekiel – 7 Exodus – 18 Jeremiah – 6 Leviticus – 17 Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo 13

  14. Damascus Document (one of two copies from the Cairo Geniza) The Opening to the Cairo Geniza Solomon Schechter (1847-1915) – Documents of Jewish sectaries, edited from Hebrew MSS. in the Cairo Genizah collection, Solomon now in the possession of the University Library, Schechter Cambridge , vol. 1: Fragments of a Zadokite work . (1847-1915) studying Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953) – Geniza Eine unbekannte jüdische Sekte (1922) fragments (English translation: (c. 1896) An Unknown Jewish Sect [1970]). Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953) 4Q266 Damascus Document 14

  15. 1967 – Six-Day War Temple Scroll (11QT) Yigael Yadin Kando 4QMMT 4QMMT Miqzat Ma‘ase ha-Torah Yigael Yadin at (“Some Precepts of Torah”) work on the Halakhic Letter Temple Scroll (c. 1970) Discovered in 1954 Assigned to John Strugnell in 1959 Made public in 1984 Published in 1994 by Elisha Qimron and John Strugnell Tefillin 15

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