Qumran between the Old and New Testaments [edited by] Frederick H. Cryer and Thomas L. Thompson.

Papers from a conference held June 19-22, 1995 at Schaeffergården.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The genre of 11QMelchizedek / Anders Aschim -- The Essenes in Philo and Josephus / Per Bilde -- The consciousness of belonging to God's covenant and what it entails according to the Damascus document and the community rule / Ellen Juhl Christiansen -- Genesis in Qumran / Frederick H. Cryer -- The mystery to come : early Essene theology of Revelation / Torleif Elgvin -- The Isaiah scroll and the composition of the Book of Isaiah / Jesper Høgenhaven -- The spirit in human beings in some Qumran non-biblical texts / Robert W. Kvalvaag -- The understanding of community in the Old Testament / Niels Peter Lemche -- The history of the Qumran community in the light of recently available texts / Florentino García Martínez -- The use of Old Testament quotations in the Qumran community rule / Sarianna Metso -- Qumran and LXX / Staffan Olofsson -- The archaeology of Khirbet Qumran / Allan Rosengren Petersen -- 4QTestimonia and Bible composition : a Copenhagen lego hyposthesis / Thomas L. Thompson -- The significance of the texts from the Judean desert for the history of the text of the Hebrew Bible : a new synthesis / Emanuel Tov -- The Teacher of Righteousness, the history of the Qumran community, and our understanding of the Jesus movement : texts, theories and trajectories / Håkan Ulfgard -- Historiography of Qumran : the sons of Zadok and their enemies / Ben Zion Wacholder.