Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls in Context: Integrating the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Study of Ancient Texts, Languages, and Cultures, edited by Armin Lange, Emanuel Tov, and Matthias Weigold, in association with Bennie H. Reynolds III.

Authors

Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

11-2013

Document Type

Article

Citation

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research Nov 2013, Volume 370, pp. 244 - 246

Abstract

These two massive volumes comprise the proceedings of a conference of the same name held at the University of Vienna in February 2008. The purpose of the conference, and the proceedings volumes, in the words of the editors, is “to integrate the Dead Sea Scrolls fully into the various disciplines that benefit from the discovery of these very important texts” (vol. 1, p. x). As a result, the papers contained in these volumes are wideranging, written by specialists in the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) as well as in other disciplines. The volumes will thus appeal to scholars in a variety of disciplines, including archaeology of the ancient Near East. ... In as large a collection as the editors present here, the reader should expect essays of uneven quality. But there is much in this collection to entice scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as connected disciplines.