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The discovery of the Scrolls in the Judean Desert -- Archaeology of the Qumran site: the caves, buildings, and cemeteries -- Dating the scrolls found at Qumran -- The Bible before the scrolls -- The Biblical scrolls -- The Dead Sea scrolls and the Biblical text -- The scrolls, the Apocrypha, and the Pseudepigrapha -- The shape and contents of the Scriptures used at Qumran -- The Nonbiblical scrolls -- The movement associated with Qumran and its place in early Judaism -- Religious thought and practice reflected in the Qumran scrolls

"Converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls examines the meaning of the term gēr in the Dead Sea Scrolls. While often interpreted as a resident alien, this study of the term as it is employed within scriptural rewriting in the Dead Sea Scrolls concludes that the gēr is a Gentile convert to Judaism. Contrasting the gēr in the Dead Sea Scrolls against scriptural predecessors, Carmen Palmer finds that a conversion is possible by means of mutable ethnicity. Furthermore, mutable features of ethnicity in the sectarian movement affiliated with the Dead Sea Scrolls include shared kinship, connection to land, and common culture in the practice of circumcision. The sectarian movement is not as closed toward Gentiles as has been commonly considered"--

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Key to Symbols -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Context -- 1.1.1 Context Part I: "Sectarianism" and Levels of Social Closure within the Sectarian Movement Affiliated with the DSS -- 1.1.2 Context Part II: Gēr Research within Scriptural Tradition -- 1.2 Problem and Significance -- 1.2.1 Problem and Significance Part I: Who Is the Gēr in the DSS? -- 1.2.2 Problem and Significance Part II: of What Does Ethnicity and Conversion Consist? -- 1.2.3 Problem and Significance Part III: Summary and Moving Ahead to the DSS -- 1.3 Response: Methodology -- 1.4 Chapter Outlines -- Chapter 2 Provenance and Dating of the Gēr in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 2.1 Overview of the Provenance of the Sectarian Movement and the Damascus and Serekh Traditions -- 2.1.1 The Sectarian Movement: Deposed Zadokite Priests? -- 2.1.2 The Sectarian Movement and Prevailing Dating -- 2.1.3 The Sectarian Movement: Essenes? -- 2.1.4 The Relationship between D and S: Chronology -- 2.2 Means of Establishing Provenance and Dating of the Texts -- 2.2.1 Literary Devices -- 2.2.2 Paleography -- 2.2.3 Orthography Style -- 2.3 An Assessment of the Occasions Where the Term Gēr Has Been Employed -- 2.3.1 A Text That Influences Damascus (D) and Serekh (S) Traditions: 4Q423 Instructiong Frag. 5, 1-4 -- 2.3.2 Texts Correlated with the Damascus (D) Tradition -- 2.3.2.1 Damascus Document Manuscripts: Cairo Genizah, 4QD, and 6QD -- 2.3.2.1.1 CD VI, 14-VII, 1 -- 2.3.2.1.2 CD XIV, 3-6 -- 2.3.2.2 11QTa Temple Scroll XL, 5-6 -- 2.3.2.3 4Q377 Apocryphal Pentateuch B Frag. 1, I -- 2.3.2.4 4Q159 Ordinancesa Frags. 2-4, 1-3 -- 2.3.2.5 4Q279 Four Lots Frag. 5, 1-6 -- 2.3.3 Texts Correlated with the Serekh (S) Tradition -- 2.3.3.1 4Q169 Pesher Nahum Frags. 3-4, II, 7-10 -- 2.3.3.2 4Q174 Florilegium Frag. 1, I, 1-4.

Eugene Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible the comprehensive and synthesized picture he has gained as editor of many biblical scrolls. His earlier volume, The Biblical Qumran Scrolls, presented the evidence - the transcriptions and textual variants of all the biblical scrolls - and this volume explores the implications and significance of that evidence. The Bible has not changed, but modern knowledge of it certainly has changed. The ancient Scrolls have opened a window and shed light on a period in the history of the text's formation that had languished in darkness for two thousand years. They offer a parade of surprises that greatly enhance knowledge of how the scriptural texts developed through history--

The Holy Land: David Roberts, Dead Sea Scrolls, House of David Inscription. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California. October 6, 2001 13, 2002.