Beginning late in the Old Testament period and continuing for the next six hundred years, the Jewish high priests were often the most important members of Jewish society. They not only possessed re…
The premier Dead Sea Scrolls primer ever since its original publication in 1994, James VanderKam's Dead Sea Scrolls Today won the Biblical Archaeology Society's Publication Award in 1995 for the Be…
The substantial value of the Dead Sea Scrolls for biblical studies is well known. However, it can be difficult to remain on the cutting edge of Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship. In this volume leading …
The advent of the third millennium has brought new challenges in the study of the Dead Sea scrolls. The official publication of the scrolls is nearing completion and virtually all the documents are…
The second temple period (516/15 BCE-70 CE) was an age which the Jewish people, wherever they lived, were under the political and military control of other nations. Only for a brief time in the lat…